... APPRAISAL OF THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION: Economic appraisal of the healtheffectsof air pollution. The Stationery Office, London, United Kingdom, 1999. 7. Evaluation and use of epidemiological ... journal of epidemiology, 151: 440–448 (2000). 18. COMEAP. Quantification of the effectsof air pollution on health in the United Kingdom. Department ofHealth Committee on the Medical Effectsof ... adverse effects of air pollution in specific locales; quantifying the effectsof short-term variation of air pollution (including air pollution episodes); and serving as the basis for air pollution...
... D.V. Health Indices of the Adverse Effectsof Air Pollution: TheQuestion of Coherence; Environ. Res. 1992, 59, 336-349.44. Bates, D.V. The Effectsof Air Pollution on Children; Environ. Health Perspect. ... Analyses of Regional Dif-ferences in Short-Term Effectsof Air Pollution on Daily Mortality inAPHEA Cities. In Revised Analyses of Time-Series of Air Pollution and Health. Special Report; HealthEffects ... InRevised Analyses of Time-Series of Air Pollution and Health. Special Re-port; HealthEffects Institute: Boston, MA, 2003; pp 211–218.149. Schwartz, J. The Effectsof Particulate Air Pollution on...
... characterization of exposure (A) is done by engineers of the department of environment. The assessment of possible healtheffects (B) and their relevance (C) is done by Public Health Services. ... Air pollution and Hospital Admissions 43 INTRODUCTION The cardiopulmonary healtheffectsof air pollution have been widely investigated.6,17 Several studies showed that episodes of elevated ... with increased air pollution concentrations. In the past decade, the focus has shifted towards healtheffectsof long-term exposure to air pollution, and traffic related air pollution became...
... of its adverse effects on health and to the prediction of the benefi ts of reducing this part of the total air -pollution mix. Initial estimates show that tens of thousands of deaths per year ... fraction of the total evidence on the effects on healthof urban air pollution. A review of this evidence indicates that transport-related air pollution contributes to an increased risk of death, ... 2 Healtheffectsof transport-related air pollution The mixture of air pollution varies in time and space, depending on several characteristics, such as proximity to roads, the composition of...
... and animal HealthEffectsof Particulate Matter Air Pollution C. Arden Pope III Mary Lou Fulton Professor of Economics Presented at EPA Wood Smoke HealthEffects Webinar ... various indices of particulate air pollution. Age-, sex-, and race- adjusted population-based mortality rates in U.S. cities for 1980 plotted over various indices of particulate air pollution (From ... Health studies take advantage of highly variable air pollution levels that result from inversions. 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05...
... The Cost of Kyoto Protocol Targets: The Case of Japan Paltsev et al. July 2004113. Air PollutionHealth Effects: Toward an Integrated Assessment Yang et al. July 2004114. The Role of Non-CO2 ... does not account for the effectsof air pollution policies onoverall demand for fossil fuels and on the choice of fuels (coal, oil, gas), nor have we considered the effects of caps on black carbon ... consideration of controlpolicies applied to local air pollution and global climate. It also provides the capability to assessthe effectsof air pollution on ecosystems, and to predict levels of irritants...
... Health Promotion, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Of ce on Smoking and Health, 2006. 9 Bernstein J A, Alexis N, Bacchus H, et al. The healtheffectsof ... sources of air pollution can be categorized by type of source and by pollutant group, as shown in Table 1, which also depicts the main healtheffects Table 1 Sources and characteristics of varied ... pollutants and associated health effects 7Pollutant* Sources and characteristics Associated health effects Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)8A complex mixture of >4000 identifi ed chemicals...
... report.Forecasting the healtheffectsof air pollution on the population of Ontario is challenging. A keydecision is the level of spatial and temporal resolution to be used. Should the activity levels of every ... the purposes of this discussion, the term “illness” includes morbidity and mortality; air pollution cancause both types ofhealth effects. 6 Air pollution is responsible for a range of physical ... of background PM concentrations is warranted if estimates of total health damagesare required. Users of ICAP can easily analyze the potential impact of different background levels of PMon health...
... Analysis of Various Models of Short-Term Effectsof Ambient Particles on Total Mortality in 29 Citiesin APHEA2; In Revised Analyses of Time-Series Studies of Air Pollution and Health; HealthEffects ... to mindthe oft-used analogy of “under the lamp post” in that PM effects are somehow determined by the mass-dose of PM.There is some discussion of size-based determinants of health effects, but ... however, it isillogical to assume a priori that the effectsof combustionemissions are the effects solely of the PM component.Some of the same effectsof traffic cited as evidencefor PM causality...
... COMPLEXITIES IN RESOLVING GULF WAR AND HEALTH ISSUES Investigations of the healtheffectsof past wars have often focused on narrowly defined hazards or health outcomes, such as infectious diseases ... War and Health: A Review of the Medical Literature Relative to the Gulf War Veterans’ Health Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice 16 GULF WAR AND HEALTH ... president of the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding...