Table 3 Forms of the concentration-response functions and the baseline functions to calculate health impacts as a function of change in pollutant concentration (ΔC), incidence rate (I), population (P), and fitting coefficients A and β

1

\(\left[1-\frac{1}{\exp \left(\beta \bullet \Delta C\right)}\right]\bullet I\bullet P\bullet A\)

I·P·A

2

\(\left[1-\frac{1}{\exp \left(\beta \bullet \Delta C\right)}\right]\bullet I\bullet P\)

I·P

3

β ∙ ∆C ∙ P ∙ A

I·P

4

\(\left[1-\frac{1}{\left(1-I\right)\bullet \exp \left(\beta \bullet \Delta C\right)+I}\right]\bullet I\bullet P\)

I·P

5

[1 − exp(−β ∙ ∆C)] ∙ I ∙ P

I·P