Air Pollution and Health in Rapidly Developing Countries

ISBN-13: 9781853839665 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 256 str.

Opis

As many as one billion people are regularly exposed to indoor air pollution levels exceeding WHO guidelines by up to 100 times. This book addresses issues of particular importance to developing countries where polluting activies have been growing, but local research and preventive and protective measures are at an early stage. There have been considerable advances in the epidemiology of air pollution, changes in the international air pollution guidelines and the emergence of more systematic approaches to air pollution prevention and control. This text is intended to fill a gap in the literature on air pollution and health. The chapters have been commissioned from leading researchers in both the scientific and policy areas of air pollution and health.

Spis treści

Introduction: Air Pollution and Health in Developing Countries - The Context * Health-damaging Air Pollution: A Matter of Scale * Air Pollution and Health - Studies in the Americas and Europe * Air Pollution and Health in Developing Countries: A Review of Epidemiological Evidence * Local Ambient Air Quality Management * Rapid Assessment of Air pollution and Health: Making Optimal use of Data for Policy - and Decision-making * A Systematic Approach to Air Quality Management: Examples for the URBAIR Cities * Indoor Air pollution * Vehicle Emissions and Health in Developing Countries * Air Quality in Hong Kong and the Impact of Pollution on Health 1988-1997 * Air Pollution and its Impacts on Health in Santiago, Chile * Air Quality and Health in Greater Johannesburg * Index