Health impact of the Tajogaite volcano eruption in La Palma population (ISVOLCAN study): rationale, design, and preliminary results from the first 1002 participants

María Cristo Rodríguez-Pérez*, Manuel Enrique Fuentes Ferrer, Luis D. Boada, Ana Delia Afonso Pérez, María Carmen Daranas Aguilar, Jose Francisco Ferraz Jerónimo, Ignacio García Talavera, Luis Vizcaíno Gangotena, Arturo Hardisson de la Torre, Katherine Simbaña-Rivera, Antonio Cabrera de León

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Original languageEnglish
Article number19
JournalEnvironmental Health: A Global Access Science Source
Volume23
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Feb 2024

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Funding

The authors give special thanks to Marta Rodríguez Pérez for her invaluable contribution in the technical support of this study. She has managed the contacts with selected persons and scheduled participants. She also designed all the electronic documents to recording data from the participants and has carried out the data quality control of the database of the cohort. Many thanks too to the Primary Care health staff of La Palma, nurses and family physicians, around the island, for their help to disseminate the study and to administer epidemiological questionnaires to the participants.

Keywords

  • Epidemiology and Public Health
  • Morbidity Associated with volcanic eruption
  • Mortality Associated with volcanic eruption
  • Non-anthropogenic toxic contaminants
  • Volcanic eruptions
  • ECUAVOLCAN

    Simbaña-Rivera, K. L. (PI)

    15/12/24 → …

    Project: Research project

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