Estimating deaths attributable to airborne particles: sensitivity of the results to different exposure assessment approaches.

Background: Epidemiological evidences support the existence of an effect of airborne particulate on population health. However, few studies evaluated the robustness of the results to different exposure assessment approaches. In this paper, we estimated short term effects and impacts of high levels of particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤10 μm (PM) and ≤2.