Table 2.
Characteristics of the studies selected in the review
| [citation] authors (year) | Country | Study class | Health outcomes scoped | Analytical method | Critical appraisal (relevance) | Funding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [47] Liao et al. (2016) | China | Mortality/ Morbidity | Neural tube defects | Spatial autocorrelation | Medium | NNSFC-YTF-IGSNRSa |
| [31] Woolley et al. (2015) | USA | Mortality | Malignant and non-malignant respiratory diseases, and external and all causes of death | Two sample t test | Medium | ARIES b |
| [49] Talbott et al. (2015) | USA | Morbidity | Diseases of the circulatory system | Linear regression, spatial regression | High | ARIES b |
| [30] Mueller et al. (2015) | USA | Mortality/ Morbidity | Cancer of lung, colon, breast, prostate, and all combined cancer | Linear regression, spatial autocorrelation | High | CTMPHD-EFCR c |
| [50] Lamm et al. (2015) | USA | Morbidity | Congenital anomalies | Poisson regression | Medium | ARIES b |
| [32] Buchanich et al. (2014) | USA | Mortality | Malignant neoplasms, and external and all causes of death | Negative binomial regression | Medium | ARIES b |
| [51] Brink et al. (2014) | USA | Morbidity | Diseases of the respiratory system | Linear regression | Medium | ARIES b |
| [52] Liu et al. (2013) | USA | Morbidity | Diabetes mellitus | Multilevel linear regression | Medium | JHERC-NIOSH d |
| [33] Fernandez-Navarro et al. (2012) | Spain | Mortality | Malignant neoplasms | Poisson regression, spatial regression | High | Spain Health Research Fund |
| [34] Borak et al. (2012) | USA | Mortality | All causes of death | Linear regression | Medium | National Mining Association |
| [35] Ahern and Hendryx (2012) | USA | Mortality | Malignant neoplasms | Linear regression | Medium | Not stated |
| [36] Esch and Hendryx (2011) | USA | Mortality | Chronic diseases of the circulatory system | Linear regression | High | Not stated |
| [53] Christian et al. (2011) | USA | Morbidity | Lung cancer | Spatial scan statistic | Medium | KLCRP e |
| [37] Hendryx (2011) | USA | Mortality | All causes of death | Linear regression | Medium | Not stated |
| [54] Ahern et al. (2011) | USA | Morbidity | Congenital anomalies | Poisson regression, spatial autocorrelation | High | Not stated |
| [55] Ahern, et al. (2011) | USA | Morbidity | Low birth weight | Linear regression | Medium | Not stated |
| [46] Liao et al. (2010) | China | Mortality/Morbidity | Neural tube defects | Poisson regression, spatial autocorrelation | High | PNNSFC -HTRDPC –NBRPP f |
| [38] Hitt and Hendryx (2010) | USA | Mortality | Cancer of the respiratory, digestive and genitourinary systems | Spatial autocorrelation | Medium | Not stated |
| [39] Hendryx et al. (2010) | USA | Mortality | Diseases of the respiratory and circulatory systems, all Malignant neoplasms, and all causes of death | Linear regression | Medium | Not stated |
| [40] Hendryx et al. (2010) | USA | Mortality | Cancer of the respiratory, digestive, genitourinary, hematopoietic, and central nervous systems, and melanoma | Linear regression, spatial autocorrelation | High | Not stated |
| [41] Hendryx and Ahern (2009) | USA | Mortality | All causes of death | Linear regression | Medium | Grant RRI-UWV g |
| [42] Hendryx (2009) | USA | Mortality | Diseases of the circulatory, respiratory, and genitourinary systems | Poisson regression | Medium | Grant RRI-UWV |
| [43] Hendryx et al. (2008) | USA | Mortality | Lung cancer | Linear regression | Medium | Grant RRI-UWV |
| [44] Hendryx (2008) | USA | Mortality | All causes of death | Linear regression | Medium | Not stated |
| [56] Hendryx et al. (2007) | USA | Morbidity | Lung cancer, diseases of the respiratory, circulatory, and musculoskeletal systems, diabetes, and mental disorders | Multilevel logistic regression | Medium | Not stated |
| [48] Gu et al. (2007) | China | Mortality/ Morbidity | Neural tube defects | Spatial autocorrelation | Medium | Grant h |
| [57] Howel et al. (2001) | UK | Morbidity | Diseases of the eyes and skin, and diseases of the respiratory system | Linear regression | Medium | Grant i |
| [58] Pless-Mulloli et al. (2000) | UK | Morbidity | Diseases of the eyes and skin, and diseases of the respiratory system | Linear regression | Medium | Grant j |
a National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Yong Talent Fund of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and the Natural Resources Search
b Industrial affiliate program at Virginia Tech; supported by members that include companies in the energy sector
c The Caryll Towsley Moy PhD Endowed Fund for Collaborative Research
d The Johns Hopkins Education and Research Centre, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
e Kentucky Lung Cancer Research Program
f The Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China, the National Basic Research Priorities Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, and the Knowledge Innovation Program
g Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University
h National project on Population and Health, China
i Medical Research Council (grant AIR/96/9) UK
j Northern and Yorkshire Regional research and development grant UK