Air pollution impacts on human health and policies to reduce air pollution

Evaluating impacts of air pollution in China on public health: Implications for future air pollution and energy policies

Our objective is to establish the link between energy consumption and technologies, air pollution concentrations, and resulting impacts on public health in eastern China. We use Zaozhuang, a city in eastern China heavily dependent on coal, as a case study to quantify the impacts that air pollution in eastern China had on public health in 2000 and the benefits in improved air quality and health ...

Air pollution: health hazards and policies.

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 ...

Household Air Pollution from Cookstoves: Impacts on Health and Climate

K.E. Pinkerton and W.N. Rom (eds.), Global Climate Change and Public Health, Respiratory Medicine 7, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-8417-2_13, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Abstract Household air pollution (HAP) is an exposure of poverty. The success in having a sustainable reduction in HAP requires an understanding of the traditions and culture of the family as well as the causes of ...