Oil usage and air pollution

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 ...

Asthma and air pollution

During the last decades research all over the world has highlighted the deleterious effects of pollution on respiratory health of adults and children. Nevertheless, air pollution still represents a significant threat to health. Children are more sensitive than adults to pollutants for several factors: increased respiration relative to body size; physiologic immaturity of respiratory and immunol...

Air Pollution and Mortality

CONTROL? While there are a great many community based models for injury prevention in the scientific literature, the same cannot be said for evidence of their effectiveness. Researchers in Australia performed a comprehensive literature search for formally evaluated community based all cause child injury prevention programmes and succeeded in finding a total of only nine published examples. Only...

Air Pollution and Stroke

The adverse health effects of air pollution have long been recognised; however, there is less awareness that the majority of the morbidity and mortality caused by air pollution is due to its effects on the cardiovascular system. Evidence from epidemiological studies have demonstrated a strong association between air pollution and cardiovascular diseases including stroke. Although the relative r...