Residential exposure to agricultural pollutants: The use of administrative data to explore the health of the Dutch rural population

There has been growing concern about the health effects of agricultural pollutants among the rural populations, who by virtue of living near the sources of these pollutants are among the most exposed. The aim of this thesis was to make use of large national administrative databases to identify possible links between living near sources of agricultural pollutants, namely pesticides used in crops and livestock farming emissions, and health of the Dutch rural population that could point to more specific (groups of) exposures for further confirmatory research. From the Dutch Environmental Longitud... Mehr ...