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Taxonomy Archive: air pollution
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and its impact on allergic rhinitis and other allergic respiratory diseases
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To discuss current evidence of global climate change and its implications for allergic rhinitis and other allergic respiratory diseases. RECENT FINDINGS: Global climate change is evidenced by increasing average earth temperature, increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gas levels, and elevated pollen levels. Pollutants ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Air Quality and Climate Change: A Delicate Balance
As researchers consider the potential health impacts of a warming planet, the relationships between climate change and air pollutants become increasingly important to understand. These relationships are complex and highly variable, depending on local conditions. Dust, allergens, soot, water vapor, and other particles and gases in the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Hotter Summers Mean More Health Risks In Urban Heat Islands
Climate change models are predicting hotter summers in the Northwest, and experts say the health risks from that heat are higher in places known as urban heat islands.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and respiratory health
OBJECTIVE: To discuss the nature of climate change and both its immediate and long-term effects on human respiratory health. METHODS: This review is based on information from a presentation of the American College of Chest Physicians course on Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease held in Toronto, Canada, June 2013. It is ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change and respiratory health: current evidence and knowledge gaps
Climate change is a key driver of the accelerating environmental change affecting populations around the world. Many of these changes and our response to them can affect respiratory health. This is an expert opinion review of recent peer-reviewed literature, focused on more recent medical journals and climate-health relevant modeling ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate change, extreme weather events, air pollution and respiratory health in Europe
Due to climate change and other factors, air pollution patterns are changing in several urbanised areas of the world, with a significant effect on respiratory health both independently and synergistically with weather conditions; climate scenarios show Europe as one of the most vulnerable regions. European studies on heatwave ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Coal Blooded: Putting Profits Before People
Coal Blooded: Putting Profits Before People is a new report analyzing sulfur dioxide (SO2) and Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) emissions in conjunction with demographic factors –race, income, and population density – to rank the environmental justice performance of the nation’s 378 coal fired power plants.This report focuses on the role ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Projecting future air pollution-related mortality under a changing climate: progress, uncertainties and research needs
BACKGROUND: Climate change may affect mortality associated with air pollutants, especially for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3). Projection studies of such kind involve complicated modelling approaches with uncertainties. OBJECTIVES: We conducted a systematic review of researches and methods for projecting future ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Non-accidental health impacts of wildfire smoke
Wildfires take a heavy toll on human health worldwide. Climate change may increase the risk of wildfire frequency. Therefore, in view of adapted preventive actions, there is an urgent need to further understand the health effects and public awareness of wildfires. We conducted a systematic review of non-accidental health impacts of ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Quantifying the health impacts of air pollution under a changing climate-a review of approaches and methodology
Climate change has been predicted to affect future air quality, with inevitable consequences for health. Quantifying the health effects of air pollution under a changing climate is crucial to provide evidence for actions to safeguard future populations. In this paper, we review published methods for quantifying health impacts to ...