AIR POLLUTION HEALTH STUDIES : FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Air pollution and childhood asthma: recent advances and future directions.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Current levels of air pollution are consistently associated with asthma development and morbidity among children, suggesting that current regulatory policies may be insufficient. This review will describe recent studies that have examined specific emission sources or components of pollutants that may be associated with pediatric asthma and identify subpopulations that may be p...

Air Pollution and Health

Air pollution and health.

OBJECTIVE To review the effects of air pollution on health, with special reference to data obtained locally in Hong Kong. DATA SOURCES Medline literature search (1960-1999), websites of the World Health Organization and Environmental Protection Department, Hong Kong, and a report from the Sub-Working Group on the Review of Hong Kong's Air Quality Objectives, 1999. STUDY SELECTION Key words ...

Air pollution and its effects on health – Case studies, India

To investigate the health impact of vehicular pollution of Kolkata (former Calcutta), a cross-sectional study was carried out during 2007-2010 among 932 male non-smoking residents of the city and 812-ageand gender-matched rural subjects as control. The urban group included 460 men who were occupationally exposed to vehicular pollution: 56 traffic policemen, 188 street hawkers, 82 auto rickshaw ...

Assessment of health effects in epidemiologic studies of air pollution.

As we increasingly recognize the complexity of the pollutants in indoor and outdoor microenvironments, a broad array of inhaled mixtures has assumed scientific, public health, and regulatory importance. Few adverse effects of environmental pollutants are specific, that is, uniquely associated with a single agent; the adverse effects that might be considered in an investigation of the consequenc...