The quality of natural environment and mortality (based on the example of major cities in Poland)

"The paper presents the results of a] study on the relationship between environmental degeneration and mortality in major cities of Poland during the 1980s].... The authors examine 22 major cities differed according to the degree of pollution.... The analysis employs...life tables and methods of multiple regression.... The influence of the natural environment quality on mortality is diversified according to sex and age but in general, the interdependence is not strong."