README.md

Child health versus climate/air pollution in Australia

Australia SA3-level analysis of relationship between child mortality/morbidity and climate conditions

Prof Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Global Ecology | Partuyarta Ngadluku Wardli Kuu, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
September 2023
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Scripts

• SA3climateChildHealth.R: R code to reproduce the resampled boosted regression tree analysis for determining the relationships between child-health metrics, climate, and air pollution at the scale of Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3).

Data

• healthclim.csv
• fire20132022relIndex.csv
• NO2: NO₂ pollution data (2010-2019)
• PM25: PM_2.5 pollution data (2012-2021)

Required R libraries

• dismo
• gbm
• mice
• boot
• truncnorm