Epidemiological Bases for Ambient Air Quality Criteria*
| Autor: | Stephen R. Leeder, L. D. Pengelly |
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| Rok vydání: | 1977 |
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Pollution medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Respiratory Tract Diseases Air pollution medicine.disease_cause Air Pollution Environmental health London Epidemiology Internal Medicine Humans Sulfur Dioxide Medicine Quality (business) Mortality Child Aged media_common Pollutant Dose-Response Relationship Drug Ambient air pollution business.industry Particulate pollution Australia United Kingdom United States Ambient air Chronic Disease business |
| Zdroj: | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine. 7:78-87 |
| ISSN: | 0004-8291 |
| Popis: | Summary: Epidemiological bases for ambient air quality criteria. S. R. Leeder and L. D. Pengelly, Aust. N.Z. J. Med., 1977, 7, pp. 78–87. Epidemiological information about the health consequences of ambient air pollution is adequate at present to set upper limits so that acute deterioration due to pollution can be prevented in patients with chronic lung disease. However, our knowledge is incomplete with respect to what is a safe chronic background level, particularly with regard to reducing and preventing the amount of chronic respiratory disease presently occurring. This review concentrates exclusively on sulphur dioxide and particulate pollution, although the principles used in setting standards for these two pollutants may be applied to photochemical pollutants such as ozone which may affect the lung. It is only when the dose-effect relationships between pollution and disease are more clearly understood that the benefit of reducing air pollution to improve health can be predicted. |
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