Cardiologists´ Awareness of the Impact of Air Pollution on Cardiovascular Disease in Vietnam and the Philippines -- Multiple Logistic Regression Modelling

Author

Nguyen, Quynh T. ; Naguib, Raouf N G ; Shaker, Mohyi H. ; Papathomas, Michail ; Culaba, Alvin B.

Author_Institution

Biomed. Comput. & Eng. Technol. (BIOCORE) Appl. Res. Group, Coventry Univ., Coventry, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

6-8 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

85

Abstract

The air pollution situation in Vietnam and the Philippines has deteriorated in recent years, and mortality rates from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) have remained in the top ten of all causes of deaths for the last few years. The aim of this paper is to understand and model the awareness of cardiologists of the potential impact of air pollution on CVD in both nations. A full-scale survey covering 321 cardiologists was conducted in Vietnam (27 hospitals across the country) and the Philippines (members of the Philippine Heart Association with a subset from Davao Province). The paper reports on extensive results obtained through logistic regression modelling.

Keywords

air pollution; cardiology; diseases; regression analysis; CVD; air pollution impact; cardiologist awareness; cardiovascular disease; multiple logistic regression modelling; Air pollution; Cardiovascular diseases; Hospitals; Logistics; Predictive models; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Developments in E-systems Engineering (DeSE), 2011

Conference_Location

Dubai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2186-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DeSE.2011.41

Filename

6149959