2020/05/04 by Dylan S. Small, Dan Firth, Small, Dylan S. +11
Medicine · Social Sciences · #Applications (stat.AP) #Environmental Justice and Health Disparities #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries #Radiation Dose and Imaging
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2005.01873
openalex publication_date 2020/05/04 · openalex created_date 2022/10/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Surface mining has become a major method of coal mining in Central Appalachia\nalongside the traditional underground mining. Concerns have been raised about\nthe health effects of this surface mining, particularly mountaintop removal\nmining where coal is mined upon steep mountaintops by removing the mountaintop\nthrough clearcutting forests and explosives. We have designed a matched\nobservational study to assess the effects of surface mining in Central\nAppalachia on adverse birth outcomes. This protocol describes for the study the\nbackground and motivation, the sample selection and the analysis plan.\n