IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hok/dpaper/338.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Assessing the population-wide exposure to lead pollution in Kabwe, Zambia : blood lead level estimation based on survey data

Author

Listed:
  • Hiwatari, Masato
  • Yamada, Daichi
  • Hangoma, Peter
  • Narita, Daiju
  • Mphuka, Chrispin
  • Chitah, Bona
  • Yabe, John
  • Nakayama, Shouta MM
  • Nakata, Hokuto
  • Choongo, Kennedy
  • Ishizuka, Mayumi

Abstract

In this study, we aim to quantitatively assess the population-wide exposure to lead pollution in Kabwe, Zambia. While Kabwe is known as one of the most significant cases of environmental pollution in the world, the available information does not provide a representative figure on residents’ lead poisoning conditions. To obtain a representative figure, we estimate blood lead level (BLL) of the representative sample of Kabwe by combining two datasets: BLL data collected based on residents’ voluntary participation to blood sampling and socioeconomic data collected for approximately 900, randomly chosen households that represent Kabwe population. The results show that the representative mean BLL is slightly lower than the one observed in previous studies but a few times higher than the recent standard BLL of 5μg/dL above which health risks become significant.

Suggested Citation

  • Hiwatari, Masato & Yamada, Daichi & Hangoma, Peter & Narita, Daiju & Mphuka, Chrispin & Chitah, Bona & Yabe, John & Nakayama, Shouta MM & Nakata, Hokuto & Choongo, Kennedy & Ishizuka, Mayumi, 2019. "Assessing the population-wide exposure to lead pollution in Kabwe, Zambia : blood lead level estimation based on survey data," Discussion paper series. A 338, Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration, Hokkaido University.
    • Handle: RePEc:hok:dpaper:338
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/74300
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/74300/4/DPA338-h.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hok:dpaper:338. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Hokkaido University Library (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/fehokjp.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.