ArticleTropical medicine and health2019
Landfills and preterm birth in the Guadeloupe archipelago (French West Indies): a spatial cluster analysis.
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- Cancer incidence in the vicinity of open landfills in Guadeloupe, French West Indies.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Unsupervised Learning Applied to the Stratification of Preterm Birth Risk in Brazil with Socioeconomic Data.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- A review of clustering techniques for waste management.Heliyon · 2022Review
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backgroundA high rate of preterm birth is observed in the Guadeloupe archipelago (French West Indies), raising the hypothesis of harmful environmental exposures, including landfilling. Our aim was to evaluate whether preterm births cluster around the three main open landfills located in this area.
methodsThe study population consisted of 911 women enrolled in the Timoun mother-child cohort (2004-2007). Home addresses during pregnancy and locations of landfills were geocoded. To test for the presence of preterm birth clusters around each dumpsite, we used a focused cluster test specifically designed to detect spatial clustering around point sources.
resultsA total of 144 (15.8%) preterm births were observed among 911 births. Using the term births (
conclusionThe paucity of data available on open landfill sites regarding waste quantities, composition, and changes over time precludes any site-specific interpretation because of the variable degree of possible emissions. This result has to be confirmed in other tropical island environments where waste management has become a major concern with the potential to negatively impact the environment and public health.
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