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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Ambient air pollution"”.
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Ambient Air Pollution and the Allocation of Environmental Enforcement Effort
In this dissertation, I show that transboundary pollution and penalties for noncompliance generate incentives for strategic behavior by state enforcement agencies: laxness in enforcement of polluting plants with higher potential to generate spillovers in the former and precautionary behavior which …
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The Role of Ambient Air Pollution in the Occurrence of Emphysema
… deaths and other health problems associated with air pollution, and there have been significant improvements in our knowledge concerning the effects of air pollution on respiratory disease.</p> <p>Although chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) mortality has been studied extensively in the …
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Impact of Ambient Air Pollution on Survival of Renal Transplant Recipients
<p>There is increasing evidence that ambient air pollution is associated with coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality. This research has focused on the general public and less so on possible sensitive subgroups even though these may have even greater susceptibility to adverse effects of …
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Never Smokers -- Are They More Sensitive to the Respiratory Health Effects of Ambient Air Pollution?
… Several studies show an association between ambient particulate matter (PM) and all-cause mortality. The Adventist Health and Smog 1 (AHSMOG-1) study (N=6,338) has previously found associations between ambient air pollution and incident chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using the …
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Ambient air pollution monitoring, modelling and human health risks in Thulamela Municipality, Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa
Ambient air pollution is a pressing global environmental concern, with pollutants from natural and anthropogenic sources contributing to deteriorating air quality. This research investigates the impact of sulfur dioxide (SO₂), nitrogen oxides (NOₓ), carbon monoxide (CO), and particulate matter …
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Ambient air pollution and cardiorespiratory outcomes amongst adult residing in four informal settlements in the Western Province of South Africa
… studies investigating the relationship between ambient air pollution and cardiorespiratory outcomes have been conducted in developed countries despite more vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries especially in Africa. No studies previous studies have been done in South Africa …
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Assessment of awareness, attitudes, and practices of environmental health practitioners regarding ambient air pollution and its associated health effects in Namibia
Air pollution remains a significant global health threat, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations, including women, children, and the elderly, across all continents. HPs are often responsible for monitoring air quality and implementing guidelines to safeguard public health. This study …
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The association between ambient air pollution and cardiorespiratory health outcomes of adults residing in informal settlements of the Western Cape in a 12 month period
… There is limited data on the association between ambient air pollution cardiorespiratory outcomes among adults especially among populations with low socio-economic status in low- and middle income countries. Objectives: A cross-sectional cohort study was conducted in four informal settlements of …
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A prospective cohort study on ambient air pollution, airborne pollen (and fungal spores) and respiratory morbidities including childhood asthma in adolescents from the Western Cape Province
… effect of short- and long-term exposures to ambient air pollutants as well as fungal spores on asthma-associated outcomes. This study systematically investigated these factors among schoolchildren residing in informal settlements in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Methods: A cohort …
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The Influence of Outdoor Air Quality on Vertical and Transverse Dental Dimensions
<p>Introduction: Ambient air pollution exposure is significantly associated with increased posterior crossbite tendency. Purpose: The objectives of this study were to assess whether there was an association between exposure to ambient air pollution and skeletal and dental measurements of vertical …
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Influence of Outdoor Air Quality on Maxillofacial Growth and Development
… treatment modalities. Studies linking ambient air pollution with respiratory problems, as well as craniofacial morphology with respiratory problems are well established.1-19 In this study we aimed to determine if there was a correlation between ambient air pollution and maxillofacial …
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Association between Air Pollution Exposure and Self-Report of Recent Respiratory Infection: A MESA Air study
Background: Ambient air pollution has been linked to multiple adverse health outcomes. Most of these studies have use large-scale models to estimate air pollution exposures and have identified health outcomes based on hospital diagnosis codes. The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) and …
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Air Pollution, Temperature and Cognitive Performance in the Short Run: Evidence from Women’s Ability to Recall Dates
… across many fields and potentially correlated to air pollution and extreme temperatures. We study the effects of daily ambient air pollution and monthly temperature on women’s ability of recalling dates across 42 developing countries from 1997 to 2009. We use an estimated natural air pollution …
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The role of genetic and environmental variation in the respiratory phenotype of alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency
… type. Finally it examines the potential role of ambient air pollution. Associations were seen for TNFA with chronic bronchitis, SFTPB with FEV1, TGFB with small airways disease and GC with bronchiectasis, consistent with the role of protein products in pathogenesis. Of four MMPs studied, …
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Making Air Quality Count: Low-cost sensors, Public Health and Urban Planning
Ambient air pollution is responsible for ~ 4.2 million premature deaths every year making it the world’s single largest environmental health risk. Although 90% of this burden is borne by countries in the Global South, effective air pollution governance and monitoring in many of these countries is …
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Real-Time Air quality index application for the City of Cape Town: An event-Driven system with Kafka, CQRS and Clojure
… million premature deaths world-wide were due to ambient air pollution in 2012, 88% of which occurred in low to middle income countries such as South Africa. This project focuses on the development of an event-driven real-time air quality index application for the City of Cape Town. Event streams …
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New Opportunities in Crowd-Sourced Monitoring and Non-government Data Mining for Developing Urban Air Quality Models in the US
Ambient air pollution is among the top 10 health risk factors in the US. With increasing concerns about adverse health effects of ambient air pollution among stakeholders including environmental scientists, health professionals, urban planners and community residents, improving air quality is a …
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Relating Air Quality in the Work Environment to Occupational Health Disease
<p>Comprehensive knowledge of the air pollutants effects on the human health generally is a crucial requirement in developing effective policies for reducing such adverse effects related to ambient air pollution. Such knowledge would be essential in helping various affected countries, including the …
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Coronary Heart Disease Mortality and long-term Exposure to Ambient Particulate Air Pollutants in Elderly Nonsmoking California Residents
… assess the effect of long-term concentrations of ambient PM on risks of all causes, cardiopulmonary, coronary heart disease (CHD), total cancer, and any mention of nonmalignant respiratory disease (NMRD) mortality.</p> <p>The health effects of long-term ambient air pollution have been studied with …
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