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2008

  • Abellan JJ, Sylvia Richardson, and Nicky Best. Use of Space–Time Models to Investigate the Stability of Patterns of Disease. Environ Health Perspect. 2008 Aug;116(8):1111-9. link
  • Ball W, LeFevre S, Jarup L, Beale L. Comparison of Different Methods for Spatial Analysis of Cancer Data in Utah. Environ Health Perspect. 2008 Aug;116(8):1120-4. link
  • Beale L, Abellan JJ, Hodgson S, Jarup L. Methodologic Issues and Approaches to Spatial Epidemiology. Environ Health Perspect. 2008 Aug;116(8):1105-10. link
  • Elliott P, Savitz DA. Design Issues in Small-Area Studies of Environment and Health. Environ Health Perspect. 2008 Aug;116(8):1098-104. link
  • Jackson C, Best N, Richardson S. Hierarchical related regression for combining aggregate and individual data in studies of socio-economic disease risk factors. J Roy Stats Soc A (Statistics In Society) 2008;171:159-178 - Part of the BIAS project.

 

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2007

  • Abellan JJ, Fecht D, Best N, Richardson S, Briggs DJ. Bayesian analysis of the multivariate geographical distribution of the socio-economic environment in England. Environmetrics 2007;18:745–758
  • Briggs D, Fecht D, de Hoogh K. Census data issues for epidemiology and health risk assessment: experiences from the Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU) J Roy Stats Soc A Series A (Statistics in Society) 2007;170:355–378
  • Elliott P, Shaddick G, Wakefield JC, de Hoogh C, Briggs DJ. Long-term associations of outdoor air pollution with mortality in Great Britain. Thorax. 2007;62:1088-1094
  • Hodgson S, Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Colvile R, Jarup L. Assessment of exposure to mercury from industrial emissions: comparing ‘distance as a proxy’ and dispersion modelling approaches. Occup Environ Med 2007;64:380–388
  • Hodgson S, Nieuwenhuijsen M, Elliott P, Jarup L. Kidney disease mortality and environmental exposure to mercury. Am J Epidemiol 2007;165:72-7
  • Jarup L, Morris S, Richardson S, Briggs D, Cobley N, de Hoogh C, Gorog K, Elliott P. Down syndrome in births near landfill sites. Prenat Diagn. 2007;27:1191-1196
  • Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Toledano MB, Bennett J, Best N, Hambly P, de Hoogh C, Wellesley D, Boyd PA, Abramsky L, Dattani N, Fawell J, Briggs D, Jarup L, Elliott P. Chlorination Disinfection By-products and Risk of Congenital Anomalies in England and Wales. Environ Health Perspect [Online 6 November 2007].

 

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2006

  • Ferrier H, Shaw G, Nieuwenhuijsen M, Boobis A, Elliott P. Assessment of uncertainty in a probabilistic model of consumer exposure to pesticide residues in food. Food Addit Contam 2006;23:601-15.
  • Jackson C, Best N, Richardson S. Improving ecological inference using individual-level data. Stat Med 2006;25:2136-59.
  • Key J, Hodgson S, Omar RZ, Jensen TK, Thompson SG, Boobis AR, Davies DS, Elliott P. Meta-analysis of studies of alcohol and breast cancer with consideration of the methodological issues. Cancer Causes Control 2006;17:759- 70.
  • Richardson S, Abellan JJ, Best N. Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis of joint patterns of male and female lung cancer risks in Yorkshire (UK). Stat Methods Med Res 2006;15:385-407.

 

Book Chapter

  • Elliott, P. Point sources of air pollution - investigation of possible health effects using small area methods. In: Ayres J, Maynard R, Richards R, eds. Air Pollution Reviews volume 3. Air Pollution and Health. Singapore; Imperial College Press, 2006, pp 49-67.

 

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2005

  • Best N, Richardson S, Thomson A. A comparison of Bayesian spatial models for disease mapping. Stats Met Med Res 2005;14:35-59.
  • Briggs D. The Role of GIS: coping with space (and time) in air pollution exposure assessment. J Tox Env Health 2005:68:1234-61.
  • Gullliver J, Briggs DJ. Time-space modeling of journey-time exposure to traffic-related air pollution using GIS. Environ Res. 2005;97:10-25.
  • Jarup L, Dudley ML, Babisch W, Houthuijs D, Swart W, Pershagen G, Bluhm G, Katsouyanni K, Velonakis M, Cadum E, Vigna-Taglianti F for the HYENA consortium. Hypertension and Exposure to Noise near Airports (HYENA) - study design and noise exposure assessment. Environ Health Perspect 2005;113:1473-8.
  • Toledano MB, Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Best N, Whitaker H, Hambly P, de Hoogh C, Fawell J, Jarup L and Elliott P. Relation of Trihalomethane Concentrations in Public Water Supplies to Stillbirth and Birth Weight in Three Water Regions in England. Environ Health Perspect 2005;113:225-32.
  • Whitaker H, Best N, Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Wakefield J, Fawell J, Elliott P. Modelling exposure to disinfection by-products in drinking water for an epidemiological study of adverse birth outcomes. J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol.1005;15:138-46.

 

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2004

  • Aylin P, Cockings S. Health and environment information systems. Chapter in GIS in Public Health Practice. Editor Maheswaran M, Craglia M. London: CRC Press. 2004.
  • Briggs, D.J., Joffe, M. and Elliott, P. (eds.) 2004 Impact of environmental pollution on health: balancing risk. British Medical Bulletin 68, 282 pp. Oxford University Press.
  • de Hoogh, K., Briggs, D., Cockings, S. and Bottle, A. 2004 Using GIS for environmental exposure assessment: experiences from the Small Area Health Statistics Unit. In: GIS in public health practice (R. Maheswaran and M. Craglia, eds. ), Boca Ratan, CRC Press, 109-24.
  • Elliott P, Wartenberg D. Spatial epidemiology: Current approaches and future challenges. Environmental Health Perspectives 2004; 112: 998-1006.
  • Field K, Beale L, 2004, Using GIS to model incidence, prevalence and spread of non-legal drug use, Transactions in GIS, 8(4), 423-439.
  • Gulliver J. and Briggs D.J. 2004 Personal exposure to particulate air pollution in transport microenvironments. Atmospheric Environment 38, 1-8.
  • Hodgson S, Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Hansell A, Shepperd S, Flute T, Staples B, Elliott P, Jarup L. Excess risk of kidney disease in a population living near industrial plants. Occup Environ Med 2004;61:717-9.
  • Jarup L. Health and Environment Information Systems for Exposure and Disease Mapping, and Risk Assessment. Environ Health Perspect 2004;112:995-7.
  • Nuckols JR, Ward MH, Jarup L. Using GIS for exposure assessment in environmental epidemiology studies. Environ Health Perspect 2004;112:1007-15.
  • Richardson S, Thomson A, Best N, Elliott P. Interpreting posterior relative risk estimates in disease-mapping studies. Environmental Health Perspectives 2004; 112: 1016-1025.
  • Wyatt B., Briggs D.J. and Ryder P. 2004 Building a European information capacity for environment and security. Brussels: European Communities.

 

Book Chapters

  • Aylin P, Cockings S. Health and environment information systems. In:GIS in Public Health Practice. Editor Maheswaran M, Craglia M. London: CRC Press. 2004.
  • de Hoogh, K., Briggs, D., Cockings, S. and Bottle, A. 2004 Using GIS for environmental exposure assessment: experiences from the Small Area Health Statistics Unit. In: GIS in public health practice (R. Maheswaran and M. Craglia, eds.), Boca Raton, CRC Press, 109-24.

 

Books

  • Briggs, D.J., Joffe, M. and Elliott, P. (eds.) 2004 Impact of environmental pollution on health: balancing risk. British Medical Bulletin 68, 282 pp. Oxford University Press.
  • Wyatt, B.K., Briggs, D.J. and Ryder, P. 2004 Building a European information capacity for environment and security. A contribution to the initial period of the GMES Action Plan (2002-2003). European Commission. Directorate General for Research, 237 pp.

 

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2003

  • Briggs D.J. 2003 Geographical approaches to exposure assessment. In: Exposure assessment in occupational and environmental epidemiology (M. Nieuwenhuijsen, ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Briggs D. Environmental pollution and the global burden of disease. In: Briggs DJ, Elliott P, Joffe M, eds. Impact of environmental pollution on health: Balancing risk. Brit Med Bulletin; 68: 1-24. Review.
  • Briggs DJ, Elliott P, Joffe M, eds Impact of environmental pollution on health: Balancing risk. Brit Med Bulletin; 68.
  • De Hoogh K, Briggs D, Cockings S, Bottle A. Using GIS for environmental exposure assessment: experiences from the Small Area Health Statistics Unit. In GIS in Public Health Practice - Opportunities and Pitfalls. Maheswaran R & Craglia M(eds.) London: Taylor & Francis, 2003.
  • Fawell J, Nieuwenhuijsen M. Contaminants in drinking water. In: Briggs DJ, Elliott P, Joffe M, eds Impact of environmental pollution on health: Balancing risk. Br Med Bull. 2003;68:199-208. Review.
  • Hansell A, Aylin P. Use of health data in health impact assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 2003;21(1):57-64
  • Jarup L. Hazards of heavy metal contamination. In: Briggs DJ, Elliott P, Joffe M, eds Impact of environmental pollution on health: Balancing risk. Br Med Bull. 2003;68:167-82. Review.
  • Knorr-Held L and Richardson S. A hierarchical model for space-time surveillance data on meningococcal disease incidence. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics), 52: 169-183 (2003).
  • Morris S, Thomson A, Jarup L, De Hoogh C, Briggs, D, Elliott P. No excess risk of adverse birth outcomes in populations living near special waste landfill sites in Scotland. Scott Med J. 2003 Nov;48(4):105-7.
  • Richardson S and Best N. Bayesian hierarchical models in ecological studies of health environment effects. Environmetrics, 14: 129-147. (2003).
  • Rushton L, Elliott P. Evaluating evidence on environmental health risks. In: Briggs DJ, Elliott P, Joffe M, eds Impact of environmental pollution on health: Balancing risk. Br Med Bull 2003 68: 113-128
  • Solomon C, Poole J, Jarup L, Palmer K, Coggon D. Cardio-respiratory morbidity and long-term exposure to particulate air pollution. Int J Environ Health Res. 2003 Dec;13(4):327-35.
  • Toledano MB, Hansell AL, Jarup L, Quinn M, Jick S, Elliott P. Temporal trends in orchidopexy, Great Britain, 1992-1998 Environ Health Persp 2003;111:129-132.
  • Whitaker H, Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Best N. (2003) The relationship between water concentrations and individual uptake of chloroform: a simulation study. Environ Health Perspect 111:688-694
  • Whitaker H, Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Best N, Fawell J, Gowers A, and Elliott P.(2003) Description of Trihalomethane levels in three UK water suppliers. J Expos Anal Environ Epidemiol 13:17-23

 

Editorial Comments

  • Jarup L. Editorial: Land contamination and renal dysfunction - cause for concern? Occup Environ Med 2003; 60:461-2.
  • Jarup L, Best N. Editorial comment on geographical differences in cancer incidence in the Belgian Province of Limburg by Bruntinx and colleagues. Eur J Cancer. 2003 Sep;39(14):1973-5.

 

Book Chapters

  • Aylin P, Cockings S. Health and environment information systems. In: GIS in Public Health - Opportunities and Pitfalls. Maheswaran R & Craglia M(eds.) London: Taylor & Francis, 2003.
  • Briggs D. Global burden of environmental disease. In: Briggs DJ, Elliott P, Joffe M, eds. Impact of environmental pollution on health: Balancing risk British. Medical Bulletin 2003, 68, 1-24.
  • de Hoogh, K., Briggs, D.J., Cockings, S. and Bottle, A. Using GIS for environmental exposure assessment: experiences from the Small Area Health Statistics Unit. In: Maheswaran R and Craglia M (eds.) GIS in public health practice - opportunities and pitfalls London: Taylor and Francis, 2004, pp. 109-24.
  • Fawell J, Nieuwenhuijsen M. Contaminants in drinking water. In: Briggs DJ, Elliott P, Joffe M, eds Impact of environmental pollution on health: Balancing risk. Brit Med Bull 2003;68:199-208.
  • Jarup L. Hazards of heavy metal contamination. In: Briggs DJ, Elliott P, Joffe M, eds Impact of environmental pollution on health: Balancing risk Br Med Bull 2003;68:167-82.
  • Rushton L, Elliott P. Evaluating evidence on environmental health risks. In: Briggs DJ, Elliott P, Joffe M, eds. Impact of environmental pollution on health: Balancing risk. Brit Med Bull 2003;68:113-28).

 

Books

  • Briggs, D.J., Joffe, M. and Elliott, P.E. (editors) 2003 Impact of environmental pollution on health: balancing risk. British Medical Bulletin 68, 1, 282 pp.
  • Briggs, D.J. 2003 Making a difference. Indicators to improve children's environmental health. Geneva: World Health Organisation.

 

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2002

  • Best, N.G., Ickstadt, K., Wolpert, R.L., Cockings, S., Elliott, P., Bennett, J., Bottle, A. and Reed, S. Modelling the impact of traffic-related air pollution on childhood respiratory illness (with discussion). In Gatsonis, C, Kass, R., Carlin, B., Carriquiry, A., Gelman, A., Verdinelli, I. and West, M. (editors), Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics V, 2002, 183-253, Springer Verlag, New York.
  • Briggs D, Beale L. Preparing for Environmental Health Emergencies: The Role of GIS. In:GIS for Emergency Preparedness. Briggs D, Forer P, Jarup L, Stern R. (eds). NATO Science Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, NL. 2002, pp.3-34
  • Briggs, D.J., Forer, P., Jarup, L. and Stern, R. (eds) 2002 GIS for emergency preparedness and health risk reduction. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 326 pp.
  • Cockings S, Jarup L. A European Health & Environment Information System for Exposure & Disease Mapping & Risk Assessment (EUROHEIS). In:GIS for Emergency Preparedness. Briggs D, Forer P, Jarup L, Stern R. (eds). NATO Science Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, NL. 2002, pp.207-226
  • Elliott P. Disease clusters. In El-Shaarawi, A. and Piegorsch, W.W. (editors), Encyclopaedia of Environmetrics. John Wiley & Sons Ltd Chichester, UK, 2002, Vol 1, 530-533.
  • Green P.J. and Richardson S. Hidden Markov models and disease mapping. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 97: 1055-1070 (2002).
  • Jarup L, Best N, Toledano MB, Wakefield J, Elliott P. Geographical Epidemiology of Prostate Cancer in Great Britain. Int J Cancer 2002;97:695-699.
  • Jarup L, Briggs D, de Hoogh C, Morris S, Hurt C, Lewin A, Maitland I, Richardson S, Wakefield J, Elliott P. Cancer risks in populations living near landfill sites in Great Britain. Brit J Cancer 2002;86:1732-1736.
  • Khan SA, Taylor-Robinson SD, Toledano MB, Beck A, Elliott P, Thomas HC. Changing international trends in mortality rates for liver, biliary and pancreatic tumours. J Hepatol 2002; 37:806-13.
  • Shaddick G, Wakefield J. Modelling daily multivariate pollutant data at multiple sites. Appl.Statist. (2002) 51, Part 3, pp.351-372
  • Spiegelhalter, D.J., Best, N.G., Carlin, B.P. and van der Linde, A., Bayesian measures of model complexity and fit (with discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 64 (2002), 583-639.

 

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2001

  • Aylin P, Bottle A, Wakefield J, Jarup L, Elliott P. Proximity to coke works and hospital admissions for respiratory and cardiovascular disease in England and Wales. Thorax 2001;56:228-233.
  • Aylin P, Morris S, Wakefield J, Grossinho A, Jarup L, Elliott P. Temperature, housing, deprivation and their relationship to excess winter mortality in Great Britain, 1986-1996. Int J Epidemiol 2001;30:1100-1108.
  • Best N, Cockings S, Bennett J, Wakefield J, Elliott P. Ecological regression analysis of environmental benzene exposure and childhood leukaemia: sensitivity to data inaccuracies, geographical scale and ecological bias. J R Statist Soc A 2001; 164(1): 155-174.
  • Briggs, D.J. 2001 Air pollution and exposure-modelling for short- and long-term health effects. In: Air quality and its association with human health effects – an update. Report of a meeting held on October 19th 2000. London: Institute of British Petroleum.
  • Elliott P. Study of clustering and outbreaks. In: J Olsen, R Saracci D Trichopoulos, (eds). Teaching Epidemiology. 2nd Edition, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press/International Epidemiological Association, 2001, pp 311-320. ISBN: 0 19 850969 3.
  • Elliott P, Briggs D, Morris S, de Hoogh C, Hurt C, Kold Jensen T, Maitland I, Richardson S, Wakefield J, Jarup L. Risk of adverse birth outcomes in populations living near landfill sites. BMJ 2001;323:363–8.
  • Elliott P. Study of clustering and outbreaks. In: J Olsen, R Saracci D Trichopoulos, (eds). Teaching Epidemiology. 2nd Edition, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press/International Epidemiological Association, 2001, pp 311-320. ISBN: 0 19 850969 3.
  • Elliott P, Wakefield J. Disease clusters: Should they be investigated, and, if so, when and how? J R Statist Soc A 2001; 164(1): 3-12.
  • Hansell A, Bottle A, Shurlock L, Aylin P. Accessing and Using Hospital Activity Data. J Publ Hlth Med 2001; 23(1):51-56.
  • Keegan T, Whitaker H, Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Toledano MB, Elliott P, Fawell J, Wilkinson M, Best N. Use of routinely collected data on trihalomethane in drinking water for epidemiological purposes. Occup Environ Med 2001; 58: 447-52.
  • Knorr-Held, L. and Best, N.G. A shared component model for detecting joint and selective clustering of two diseases. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 164, (2001), 73-86.
  • Taylor-Robinson SD, Toledano MB, Arora S, Keegan TJ, Hargreaves S, Beck A, Khan SA, Elliott P, Thomas HC. Increase in mortality rates from intrahepatic cholangiosarcoma in England and Wales 1968-1998. Gut 2001; 48: 816-820.
  • Toledano M, Jarup L, Best N, Wakefield J, Elliott P. Spatial variation and temporal trends of testicular cancer in Great Britain. Brit J Cancer 2001;84:1482-1487

 

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2000

  • Arnold RA, Diamond ID, Wakefield JC. The use of population data in spatial epidemiology. In: Spatial Epidemiology: Methods and Applications. P Elliott, JC Wakefield, NG Best, D Briggs (eds). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 2000, pp. 30-50.
  • Best NG, Ickstadt K, Wolpert RL. Spatial Poisson regression for health and exposure data measured at disparate resolutions. JASA 2000; 95: 1076-1088.
  • Briggs, D.J., de Hoogh, C., Gulliver, J., Wills, J., Elliott, P., Kingham, S. and Smallbone, K. 2000 A regression-based method for mapping traffic-related air pollution: application and testing in four contrasting urban environments. Science of the Total Environment 253, 151-67.
  • Coleman MP, Aylin P. Death Certification and Mortality Statistics: an international perspective, London: The Stationery Office. 2000
  • Elliott P, Arnold R, Cockings S, Eaton N, Jarup L, Jones J, Quinn M, Rosato M, Thornton I, Toledano M, Tristan E, Wakefield J. Risk of mortality, cancer incidence and stroke in a population potentially exposed to cadmium. Occup Environ Med 2000; 57: 94-97.
  • Elliott P. Chronic health effects of air pollution: An update. In: Air Quality and Its Association with Human Health Effects – An Update. Report of a Meeting, Institute of Petroleum, London, October 19, 2000, pp. 25-32. SAVIAH
  • Elliott P, Eaton N, Shaddick G, Carter R. Cancer incidence near municipal solid waste incinerators in Great Britain 2: Histopathological and case-note review of primary liver cancer cases. Br J Cancer 2000; 82(5): 1103-1106.
  • Elliott P, Jarup, L, Quinn M, Thornton I. Health risks from exposure to cadmium in soil. Response to Phillips R and Hughes A. Occup Environ Med 2000; 57: 647-648. Letter.
  • Elliott P, Wakefield JC, est NG, Briggs D(eds). Spatial Epidemiology: Methods and Applications. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 2000, 475 pp.
  • Elliott P, Wakefield JC, Best NG, Briggs DJ. Spatial epidemiology: methods and applications. In: Spatial Epidemiology: Methods and Applications. P Elliott, JC Wakefield, NG Best, D Briggs (eds). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 2000, pp. 3-14.
  • Elliott P, Wakefield JC. Bias and confounding in spatial epidemiology. In: Spatial Epidemiology: Methods and Applications. P Elliott, JC Wakefield, NG Best, D Briggs (eds). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 2000, pp. 68-84.
  • Hansell A, Aylin P. Routine data and health impact assessment – a review of epidemiological studies of socio-economic influence on health and evaluation of outcome indicators derived from routine health data for health impact assessment. Report to the Department of Health, March 2000.
  • Järup L. Role of geographical studies in risk assessment. In: Spatial Epidemiology: Methods and Applications. P Elliott, JC Wakefield, NG Best, D Briggs (eds). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK . 2000, pp. 15-433.
  • Kingham, S., Briggs, D.J., Elliott, P., Lebret, E. and Fischer, P. 2000 Spatial variations in concentrations of traffic-related pollutants in indoor and outdoor air in Huddersfield, England. Atmospheric Environment; 34 (6), 905-16.
  • Lebret, E., Briggs, D., Collins, S. van Reeuwijk, H., Fischer, P. Hendrik, H, Kriz, B. and Gorynski, P. 2000 Small area variations in ambient NO2 exposures in four European areas. Atmospheric Environment;34 (2), 177-85.
  • Morris SE, Sale RC, Wakefield JC, Falconer S, Elliott P, Boucher BJ. Hospital admissions for asthma and chronic obstructive airways disease in East London hospitals and proximity of residence to major roads. J Epidemiol Community Health 2000; 54: 75-76.
  • Morris SE, Wakefield JC. Assessment of increased risk in relation to a pre-specified source. In: Spatial Epidemiology: Methods and Applications. P Elliott, JC Wakefield, NG Best, D Briggs (eds). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 2000, pp. 153-184.
  • Nieuwenhuijsen MJ. Personal exposure monitoring in environmental epidemiology. In: Spatial Epidemiology: Methods and Applications. P Elliott, JC Wakefield, NG Best, D Briggs (eds). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 2000, pp. 360-374.
  • Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Toledano MB, Eaton NE, Fawell J, Elliott P. Chlorination disinfection by-products in water and their association with adverse reproductive outcomes: a review. Occup Environ Med 2000; 57: 73-85.
  • Nieuwenhuijsen M, Toledano MB, Elliott P. Uptake of chlorination disinfection by-products: a review and a discussion of its implications for exposure assessment in epidemiological studies. J Exp Analysis Environ Epidemiology 2000; 10: 586-599.
  • Pascutto C, Wakefield JC, Best NG, Richardson S, Bernardinelli L, Staines A, Elliott P. Statistical issues in the analysis of disease mapping data. Stat Med 2000; 19: 2493-2519.
  • P Elliott, JC Wakefield, NG Best, D Briggs (eds).Spatial Epidemiology: Methods and Applications. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 2000, 475 pp.
  • Staines A, Järup L. Health event data. In: Spatial Epidemiology: Methods and Applications. P Elliott, JC Wakefield, NG Best, D Briggs (eds). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 2000, pp. 15-29.
  • Wakefield JC, Best NG, Waller L. Bayesian approaches to disease mapping. In: Spatial Epidemiology: Methods and Applications. P Elliott, JC Wakefield, NG Best, D Briggs (eds). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 2000, 104-127.
  • Wakefield JC, Kelsall JE, Morris SE. Clustering, cluster detection and spatial variation in risk. In: Spatial Epidemiology: Methods and Applications. P Elliott, JC Wakefield, NG Best, D Briggs (eds). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. 2000, pp. 128-152.

 

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1999

  • Arnold R, Elliott P, Wakefield J, Quinn M (eds). Population Counts in Small Area Studies: Implications for Studies of Environment and Health. Studies on Medical and Population Subjects No. 62: Office for National Statistics, UK, 1999, 85 pp.
  • Arnold R. Small Area Health Statistics Unit. In: Arnold R. Elliott P, Wakefield J, Quinn M (eds.) Population Counts in Small Area Studies: Implications for Studies of Environment and Health. Studies on Medical and Population Subjects No.62: Office of National Statistics, UK, 1999, pp.10-23.
  • Aylin P, Maheswaran R, Wakefield J, Cockings S, Jarup L, Arnold R, Wheeler G, Elliott P. A national facility for small area disease mapping and rapid initial assessment of apparent disease clusters around a point source: the UK Small Area Health Statistics Unit. J Public Health Med 1999; 21: 289-298.
  • Best NG, Arnold RA, Thomas A, Waller LA, Conlon EM. Bayesian models for spatially correlated disease and exposure data. In: Bayesian Statistics 6. J M Bernardo, J O Berger, A P Dawid, A F M Smith (eds). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1999, pp. 131-56.
  • Best NG. Bayesian ecological modelling. In: Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment for Public Health. A Lawson, A Biggeri, D Böhning, E Lesaffre, J-F Viel and R Bertollini (eds), John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, UK, 1999, pp. 193-201.
  • Best NG, Wakefield JC. Accounting for inaccuracies in population counts and case registration in cancer mapping studies. J R Statist Soc A 1999; 162: 363-382.
  • Dolk H, Thakrar B, Walls P, Landon M, Grundy C, Sáez Lloret I Wilkinson P, Elliott P. Mortality among residents near cokeworks in Great Britain. Occup Environ Med 1999; 56: 34-40.
  • Elliott P, Arnold R. The Small Area Health Statistics Unit. In: Population Counts in Small Area Studies: Implications for Studies of Environment and Health. Studies on Medical and Population Subjects. R Arnold, P Elliott, J Wakefield, M Quinn (eds). Office for National Statistics, UK, 1999
  • Elliott P, Arnold R, Barltrop D, Thornton I, House IM, Henry JA. Clinical lead poisoning in England: an analysis of routine sources. Occup Environ Med 1999; 56: 820-824.
  • Elliott P, Wakefield JC. Small-area studies of environment and health. In: Statistics for the Environment 4: Statistical Aspects of Health and the Environment. V Barnett, A Stein, K F Turkman (eds). John Wiley & Sons Ltd, UK. 1999, pp. 3-27.
  • Maheswaran, R, Arnold RA, Jessop EG. Multiple myeloma in south Cumbria: prediction fulfilled. J Epidemiol Community Health 1999; 53: 255.
  • Maheswaran R, Morris S, Falconer S, Grossinho A, Perry I, Wakefield J, Elliott P. Magnesium in drinking water supplies and mortality from acute myocardial infarction in North West England. Heart 1999; 82: 455-60.
  • Morton-Jones T, Diggle P, Elliott P. Investigation of excess environmental risk around putative sources: Stone's Test with covariate adjustment Stat Med 1999; 18: 189-197.
  • Wakefield JC, Elliott P. Issues in the statistical analysis of small-area health data. Stat Med 1999; 18: 2377-2399.
  • Wakefield J, Morris S. Spatial dependence and errors-in variables in environmental epidemiology. In: Bayesian Statistics 6. J M Bernardo, J O Berger, A P Dawid, A F M Smith (eds). Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, 1999, pp. 657-84.
  • Wakefield J, Wallace C. Implications of estimated counts for small area studies of environment and health. In: Arnold R, Elliott P, Wakefield J, Quinn M (eds). Population Counts in Small Area Studies: Implications for Studies of Environment and Health. Studies on Medical and Population Subjects No. 62: Office for National Statistics, UK, 1999, pp. 63-73.
  • Wilkinson P, Elliott P, Grundy C, Shaddick G, Thakrar B, Walls P, Falconer S. Case-control study of hospital admissions with asthma in children aged 5-14 years: relation with road traffic in North West London. Thorax 1999; 54: 1070-1074.
  • Wilkinson P, Thakrar B, Walls P, Landon M, Falconer S, Grundy C, Elliott P. Lympho-haematopoietic malignancy around all industrial complexes that include major oil refineries in Great Britain. Occup Environ Med 1999; 56: 577-80.

 

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1998

  • Aylin P, Mahewaran R, Cockings S, Elliott P. A national system for rapid initial assessment of apparent disease clusters. Parliamentary Information Technology Committee Journal (PITCOM), GIS Supplement: Geographic Information and Public Policy) 1998; April Supplement, 14-15.
  • Dolk H, Thakrar B, Walls P, Landon M, Grundy C, Saez Lloret I, Wilkinson P, Elliott P. Mortality among residents near cokeworks in Great Britain. Occup Environ Med. 1999; 56: 34-40.
  • Elliott P, Best N. Geographical patterns of disease. In: Encyclopaedia of Biostatistics. P Armitage, T Colton (eds). Vol. 2, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, UK, 1998, pp 1694-1701.
  • Elliott P, Wakefield JC. Small-area studies of environment and health. In: Statistics for the Environment 4: Statistical Aspects of Health and the Environment. V Barnett, A Stein, K F Turkman (eds). John Wiley & Sons Ltd, UK. 1999, pp. 3-27.
  • Lunn DJ, Simpson S N, Diamond I, Middleton L. The accuracy of age-specific population estimates for small areas in Britain. Population Studies 1998; 52: 327-344
  • Martuzzi M, Grundy C, Elliott P. Perinatal mortality in an English health region: geographical distribution and association with socio-economic factors. Paediatr Perinat Ep 1998; 12: 263-276.
  • Morton Jones T, Diggle P, Elliott P. Investigation of excess environmental risk around putative sources: Stone’s test with covariate adjustment. Stat Med 1999; 18: 189-197.
  • Wakefield JC. The United Kingdom Small Area Health Statistics Unit. Journal of Japan Society for Atmospheric Environment 1998; 33: A60-A66.

 

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1997

  • Diggle P, Elliott P, Morris S, Shaddick G. Regression modelling of disease risk in relation to point sources. J R Statist Soc A 1997; 160(3): 491-505.
  • Dolk H, Elliott P, Shaddick G, Walls P, Thakrar B. Cancer incidence near radio and television transmitters in Great Britain. II. All high power transmitters. Am J Epidemiol 1997; 145:10-17.
  • Dolk H, Shaddick G, Walls P, Grundy C, Thakrar B, Kleinschmidt I, Elliott P. Cancer incidence near radio and television transmitters in Great Britain. I. Sutton Coldfield transmitter. Am J Epidemiol 1997; 145:1-9.
  • Eaton N, Shaddick G, Dolk H, Elliott P of the Small Area Health Statistics Unit. Small-area study of the incidence of neoplasms of the brain and central nervous system among adults in the West Midlands Region, 1974-86. Br J Cancer 1997;75:1080-83.
  • Elliott P, Briggs D J. Recent developments in the geographical analysis of small area health environmental data. In: Progress in Public Health. G Scally (ed). Royal Society of Medicine Press, London, UK, 1997, pp 101-25.
  • Elliott P, Kleinschmidt I. Angiosarcoma of the liver in Great Britain in proximity to vinyl chloride sites. Occup Environ Med 1997; 54: 14-18.
  • Wilkinson P, Thakrar B, Shaddick G, Stevenson S, Pattenden S, Landon M, Grundy C, Elliott P. Cancer incidence and mortality around the Pan Britannica Industries pesticide factory, Waltham Abbey. Occup Environ Med 1997; 54: 101-107.

 

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1996

  • Diggle P, Elliott P. Use of deprivation indices in small area studies. J Epidemiol Community Health 1996; 50: 690. (Letter to the Editor).
  • Elliott P, Shaddick G, Kleinschmidt I, Jolley D, Walls P, Beresford J, Grundy C. Cancer incidence near municipal solid waste incinerators in Great Britain Br J Cancer 1996; 73: 702-710.
  • Elliott P. Small-area studies. In: Environmental Epidemiology: Exposure and Disease. R Bertollini, M D Lebowitz, R Saracci, D A Savitz (eds). World Health Organisation-Lewis Publications (CRC Press), Florida, USA, 1996, pp 187-199.
  • Olsen SF, Martuzzi M, Elliott P. Cluster analysis and disease mapping - why, when, and how? A step by step guide. Br Med J 1996; 313: 863-6.
  • Shaddick G, Elliott P. Use of Stone’s method in studies of disease risk around point sources of environmental pollution. Stat Med 1996; 15: 1927-1934.

 

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1995

  • Briggs D, Elliott P. The use of geographic information systems in studies of environment and health data. W Health Stats Q 1995; 48: 85-94.
  • Elliott P. Investigation of disease risk in small areas. Occup Environ Med 1995; 52: 785-89.
  • Elliott P, Martuzzi M, Shaddick G. Spatial statistical methods in environmental epidemiology: a critique. Stat Methods Med Res 1995; 4: 139-161.
  • Diggle PJ, Elliott P. Disease risk near point sources: statistical issues for analyses using individual or spatially aggregated data. J Epidemiol Community Health 1995; 49(Suppl.2): S20-S27.
  • Dolk H, Mertens B, Kleinschmidt I, Walls P, Shaddick G, Elliott P. A standardisation approach to the control of socioeconomic confounding in small area studies of environment and health. J Epidemiol Community Health 1995; 49(Suppl.2): S9-S14.
  • Kleinschmidt I, Hills M, Elliott P. Smoking behaviour can be predicted by neighbourhood deprivation measures. J Epidemiol Community Health 1995; 49(Suppl.2): S72-S77.
  • Martuzzi M, Hills M. Estimating the degree of heterogeneity between event rates using likelihood. Am J Epidemiol, 1995; 141: 369-74.
  • Sans S, Elliott P, Kleinschmidt I, Shaddick G, Pattenden S, Walls P, Grundy C, Dolk H. Cancer incidence and mortality near the Baglan Bay petrochemical works, South Wales. Occup Environ Med, 1995; 52: 217-224.
  • Small Area Health Statistics Unit. Proceedings of a Meeting on The Use of Deprivation Indices in Studies of Environment and Health. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1994. J Epidemiol Community Health 1995; 49 (Suppl. 2).

 

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1994

  • Dolk H, Elliott P. Evidence for "clusters of anophthalmia" is thin. Br Med J, 1993; 307: 203 (Letter to the Editor)
  • Kleinschmidt I, Pattenden S, Walls P, Grundy C, Stevenson S, Shaddick G, Elliott P. A national health statistics database: data quality requirements for small area health studies. In: Frederiksen P, ed. Eurocarto XII: geo-related databases. 10-12 October 1994, Copenhagen, Denmark, Proceedings (1994; XVI-1-XVI-10).

 

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1993

  • Dolk H. Congenital anomalies and the environment. In: (Eds. Normand CEM, Vaughan P) Europe without frontiers. Implications for health. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Second Annual Public Health Forum, April 1991. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1993, pp 218-224.
  • Elliott P. (1993). Environmental epidemiology: a critical review. In: Greschner S (ed) Proceedings of Second Symposium on environment and health research in the countries of the European Community and of the USSR, held in Moscow October 14-19, 1991, Moscow. Commission of the European Communities DG XII, Brussels.
  • Elliott P. Epidemiology in the assessment of environmental hazards: II: The Small Area Health Statistics Unit. In: Normand CEM, Vaughan P (eds)) EuropeWithout Fontiers. Implications for Halth. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Second Annual Public Health Forum, April 1991. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1993, pp 247-254.
  • Elliott P. Global Epidemiology. In: Environmental Change and Human Health - CIBA symposium 175, Wageningen, the Netherlands 1-3 September 1993. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1993. pp 219-233.
  • Kleinschmidt I. The relational way of looking at data. In (Ed. Westlake A) Relational Databases. Tutorial papers on the relational model selected from an SGCSA Conference on relational databases in survey research. 1993, SGCSA, London ISBN 0 9521682 0 0, pp 17-26.
  • Quinn MJ, Elliott P. Small Area Health Statistics in the UK. In: Proceedings of an East European-COST meeting on air pollution epidemiology, held in Budapest, Hungary, May 22-25, 1991. Brussels: Commission of the European Communities, COST 631/2, 1993.
  • Sans S, Elliott P. Epidemiology in the assessment of environmental hazards: I: acute incidents and chronic exposure. In: Normand CEM, Vaughan P (Eds) Europe Without Frontiers. Implications for Health. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Second Annual Public Health Forum, April 1991. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1993, pp 240-247.
  • Westlake A (ed) Relational Databases. Tutorial papers on the relational model selected from an SGCSA Conference on relational databases in survey research. 1993, SGCSA, London ISBN 0 9521682 0 0.

 

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1992

  • Cuzick J, Elliott P. Small area studies: purpose and methods. In: Elliott P, Cuzick J, English D, Stern R, eds. Geographical and Environmental Epidemiology: Methods for Small Area studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp 14-21.
  • Dolk H. Congenital malformations and small area studies of environmental effects. In: Data requirements and methods for analysing spatial patterns of disease in small areas. Extended summaries from a WHO consultation, Rome 22-24 October 1990. WHO, Copenhagen, Regional Office for Europe, EUR/ICP/CEH 087/AlS, 1992, pp 15-19.
  • Elliott P, Beresford J, Jolley DJ, Pattenden S, Hills M. Cancer of the larynx and lung around incinerators of waste solvents and oils in Britain. In: Elliott P, Cuzick J, English D, Stern R, eds. Geographical and Environmental Epidemiology: Methods for Small Area Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp 359-367.
  • Elliott P, Cuzick J, English D, Stern R (eds). Geographical and Environmental Epidemiology: Methods for Small Area Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Elliott P. Data requirements and methods for analysing spatial patterns of disease in small areas. In: Data requirements and methods for analysing spatial patterns of disease in small areas. Extended summaries form a WHO consultation, Rome 22-24 October 1990. WHO, Copenhagen, Regional Office for Europe, EUR/ICP/CEH 087/AlS, 1992, pp 20-24.
  • Elliott P, Hills M, Beresford J, Kleinschmidt I, Pattenden S, Jolley D, Rodrigues L, Westlake AJ, Rose G. Incidence of cancer of the larynx and lung near incinerators of waste solvents and oils in Great Britain. Lancet, 1992; 339: 854-858.
  • Elliott P, Kleinschmidt I, Westlake AJ. Use of routine data in studies of point sources of environmental pollution. In: Elliott P, Cuzick J, English D, Stern R, eds. Geographical and Environmental Epidemiology: Methods for Small Area Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp 106-114.
  • Elliott P, Westlake, AJ, Kleinschmidt I, Rodrigues L, Hills M, McGale P, Marshall K, Rose G. The Small Area Health Statistics Unit: a national facility for investigating health around point sources of environmental pollution in the United Kingdom. J Epidemiol Community Health, 1992; 46: 345-349.
  • Dolk H, de Wals, P. Congenital anomalies. In: Elliott P, Cuzick J, English D, Stern R, eds. Geographical and Environmental Epidemiology: Methods for Small Area Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp 72-88.
  • Dolk H, Jolley D, Shaddick G, Kleinschmidt I, Beresford J, Pattenden S, Sans S, Walls P, Elliott P. Deprivation indices and socio-economic confounding in small area studies of environmental pollution and health. In: Proceedings of a conference 'Uses and abuses of deprivation indices', held at the University of Warwick, December 1992.
  • Jolley DJ, Jarman B, Elliott P. Socioeconomic confounding. In: Elliott P, Cuzick J, English D, Stern R, eds. Geographical and Environmental Epidemiology: Methods for Small Area Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp 115-124.
  • Kleinschmidt I. A database structure and analysis system for small area health statistics. In Westlake A.J. (ed) Geographical methods in small area health studies. Proceedings of a workshop held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 22 June 1990. London, Small Area Health Statistics Unit, 1992, pp 15-34.
  • Hills M. Some comments on methods for investigating disease risk around a point source. In: Elliott P, Cuzick J, English D, Stern R, eds. Geographical and Environmental Epidemiology: Methods for Small Area Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp 231-237.
  • Hills M. Stone’s method for investigating increased relative risk around a point source: some comments. In: Data requirements and methods for analysing spatial patterns of disease in small areas. Extended summaries form a WHO consultation, Rome 22-24 October 1990. WHO, Copenhagen, Regional Office for Europe, EUR/ICP/CEH 087/AlS, 1992, pp 93-96.
  • Westlake AJ, ed. Geographical methods in small area health studies. Proceedings of a workshop held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 22 June 1990. London, Small Area Health Statistics Unit, 1992.
  • Westlake AJ. Strategies for the use of geography in epidemiological analysis. In: de Lepper M, Scholten HJ, Stern R, eds. The added value of geographical information systems in public and environmental health. Kluwer Academic Publishers (Dordrecht) and WHO, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, 1992.
  • Westlake AJ. Strategies for the use of geography in epidemiological analysis. In: Geographical methods in small area health studies. Proceedings of a workshop held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 22 June 1990. London, Small Area Health Statistics Unit, 1992, pp 5-14.

 

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1991

  • Draper GJ, Elliott P. Variations in incidence rates and factors affecting them - Summary. In: Draper G (Ed). The Geographical Epidemiology of Childhood Leukaemia and Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas in Great Britain, 1966-83. Studies in Medical and Population Subjects No. 53. London: HMSO, 1991, pp 57-59.
  • Elliott P, McGale P, Vincent TJ. Population data and description of areas. In: Draper G (Ed). The Geographical Epidemiology of Childhood Leukaemia and Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas in Great Britain, 1966-83. Studies in Medical and Population Subjects No. 53. London: HMSO, 1991, pp 17-23.
  • Rodrigues L, Hills M, McGale P, Elliott P. Socioeconomic factors in relation to childhood leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas: An analysis based on small area statistics for census tracts. In: Draper G (Ed). The Geographical Epidemiology of Childhood Leukaemia and Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas in Great Britain, 1966-83. Studies in Medical and Population Subjects No. 53. London: HMSO, 1991, pp 47-56.

 

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1990

  • Elliott P. Small area health statistics in Europe. Information Services and Use 1990; 10: 39-45.
  • Westlake AJ, Kleinschmidt I. The Implementation of Area and Membership Retrievals in Point Geography using SQL. In: Statistical and Scientific DataBase Management, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Statistical and Scientific DataBase Management, Michaelawicz Z. (Ed.) Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 420, 1990.

 

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1989

  • Elliott P. (Rapporteur). Environmental health information systems in the European Region: Report on a WHO Consultation. Berlin (West), 21-25 November 1988. In: Strategy for Development of European Environment and Health Information Systems. ICP/CEH 074 B/6 0868r, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, 1989, pp 1-22.
  • Elliott P. The Small Area Health Statistics Unit. In: Proceedings of a Meeting on the Methodology of Enquiries into Disease Clustering. (Ed: Elliott P). London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1989. ISBN 0 902657 24 0.
  • Hills M, Alexander F. Statistical methods used in assessing the risk of disease near a source of possible environmental pollution: A review. J R Statist Soc A, 1989; 152: Part 3: 353-363.
  • Small Area Health Statistics Unit. Proceedings of a Meeting on the Methodology of Enquiries into Disease Clustering. (Ed: Elliott P.) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1989. ISBN 0 902657 24 0.
  • Westlake AJ. (Ed.) Geographical Database Systems and Statistical Information. In Statistical and Scientific Database Management, Eds. Rafanelli M, Klensin JC, Svensson P. Springer Verlag, 1989.
  • Westlake AJ, Elliott P, Kleinschmidt I. Database and Statistical Issues in a System for Small Area Health Statistics. Bulletin of the ISI, 47th Session, Contributed Papers, 1989.

 

 

 
 

 

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