Comparison of respiratory symptoms among community residents near waste disposal incinerators
| Autor: | Carlton A. Hornung, Caroline A. Macera, Carl M. Shy, Tajammal Mustafa, Darrah Degnan, Charles E. Feigley, Aparna K. Mohan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Pollution
business.industry Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Air pollution Community resident General Medicine medicine.disease_cause Incineration Hazardous waste Environmental health Medicine business Air quality index Waste disposal media_common Symptom prevalence |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Health Research. 10:63-75 |
| ISSN: | 1369-1619 0960-3123 |
| Popis: | A previous survey found that residents near a hazardous waste incinerator reported more respiratory symptoms than residents of a nearby community. To explore the possibility that these findings might have been due to the use of a rural control site, far removed from urban pollution, we expanded the analysis to include reports of respiratory symptoms from residents of six additional communities. Residents of each of four study communities were exposed to the plumes of biomedical, municipal or hazardous waste combustors. For each study community, a comparison community was surveyed that was distant from major point sources of air pollution. Over 4200 respondents were queried by telephone about respiratory symptoms, smoking and other risk factors such as chemical exposures in the workplace and home, and provided a subjective assessment of air quality in their neighborhoods. Differences in symptom prevalence between each study community and its respective control community, as well as a combined control group... |
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