Environment Health Risk Assessment of Ambient Air Quality in Ambon

Survey of Ambient Air Pollution Health Risk Assessment Tools.

Designing air quality policies that improve public health can benefit from information about air pollution health risks and impacts, which include respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and premature death. Several computer-based tools help automate air pollution health impact assessments and are being used for a variety of contexts. Expanding information gathered for a May 2014 World Health O...

Monitoring ambient air quality for health impact assessment.

evaluation of health risk assessment by heavy metals in the ambient air of tehran

introductionannually, heavy metal pollution is increasing in the environment and this eventually causes serious hazards forhealth of human, animal and plant populations. heavy metals with their harmful effects are the major pollutantsin big cities. tehran is a big city and faced with this problem. heavy metals such as arsenic, iron, zinc, lead,cadmium, chromium, copper, manganese and nickel exi...

Assessment of ambient air quality in the port of Naples.

Two experimental monitoring campaigns were carried out in 2012 to investigate the air quality in the port of Naples, the most important in southern Italy for traffic of passengers and one of the most important for goods. Therefore, it represents an important air pollution source located close to the city of Naples. The concentrations of sulfur dioxide (SO₂), nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), and BTEX (be...

Assessment of Ambient Air Quality in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia

Concentrations of airborne particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than 10 μm (PM10) and five gaseous air pollutants (O3, CO, NO2, SO2 and H2S) were measured over a period of approximately six years (October 1999-June 2004) at five air quality monitoring network stations of King Abulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia. The main objective of thi...