Air pollution and health
By O. Kurmi, Kin Bong Hubert Lam, J. G. Ayres. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2020
2,127 citations recorded by the source corpus.
The term ‘occupational and environmental health’ includes any act of emission of any substance, likely to be hazardous in nature, which is either not originally present or is present in a higher concentration than normal in the natural atmosphere. Most air pollutants are generated from human activities (e.g. energy, transportation, industry, agriculture), but natural events in the living (e.g. methane emissions in wetlands) and non-living environment (e.g. volcanic eruptions) also contribute to atmospheric air pollution, although their relative importance has declined since the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern fossil fuel-based economies. Pollutants may be classified as (1) primary (emitted directly into the atmosphere) or secondary (formed in the air through chemical reactions with other pollutants and gases); (2) indoor or outdoor; (3) gaseous or particulate.
Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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Citations in the corpus
- Valuing the health risks of particulate air pollution in the Pearl River Delta, China (2012, background): “The associations of exposure to PM pollution and increases in premature mortality and the various morbidity effects have been well-documented (Dockery et al., 1993; Pope et al., 1995; Brunekreef and Holgate, 2002; Li et al., 2003; Jia et al., 2004).”
- A review of air pollution impact on subjective well-being: Survey versus visual psychophysics (2018, background): “…an environmental and health issue worldwide, particularly in developing countries, that has been implicated as a risk factor in health issues ranging from respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and impaired cognitive function (Brook, 2008; Brunekreef and Holgate, 2002; Weir, 2012).”