Noise Health Hazards in the Air Force: Engineering Criteria

Ambient Air Pollution: Health Hazards to Children

Ambient (outdoor) air pollution is now recognized as an important problem, both nationally and worldwide. Our scientific understanding of the spectrum of health effects of air pollution has increased, and numerous studies are finding important health effects from air pollution at levels once considered safe. Children and infants are among the most susceptible to many of the air pollutants. In a...

Ambient Air Pollution: Health Hazards to Children

Ambient (outdoor) air pollution is now recognized as an important problem, both nationally and worldwide. Our scientific understanding of the spectrum of health effects of air pollution has increased, and numerous studies are finding important health effects from air pollution at levels once considered safe. Children and infants are among the most susceptible to many of the air pollutants. In a...

Air pollution: health hazards and policies.

Ambient air pollution: health hazards to children.

Ambient (outdoor) air pollution is now recognized as an important problem, both nationally and worldwide. Our scientific understanding of the spectrum of health effects of air pollution has increased, and numerous studies are finding important health effects from air pollution at levels once considered safe. Children and infants are among the most susceptible to many of the air pollutants. In a...

The Health Hazards of Air Pollution-Implications for Your Patients.

Air pollution has many deleterious health effects (Table 1). The International Energy Agency recently released a report attributing an annual 6.5 million premature deaths to air pollution worldwide.1 Although the Clean Air Act has done a great deal to improve air quality in the United States since 1970, some of these gains are being eroded in part because of changes in the climate. In fact, man...