Air Pollution a Major Health Hazard In Future

Air Pollution and Health

Air pollution and health.

OBJECTIVE To review the effects of air pollution on health, with special reference to data obtained locally in Hong Kong. DATA SOURCES Medline literature search (1960-1999), websites of the World Health Organization and Environmental Protection Department, Hong Kong, and a report from the Sub-Working Group on the Review of Hong Kong's Air Quality Objectives, 1999. STUDY SELECTION Key words ...

Breast Cancer: A Major Health Hazard

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer occurring in females with an estimated burden of 1.38 million (23%) new cases worldwide, in 2008 (692,200 and 691,300 cases in developed and developing countries, respectively) (Ferlay et al., 2010) and ranks second most common cancer overall. About 458,400 deaths were projected because of breast cancer from which 60% of the deaths were repo...

Assessment of air pollution in exercise centers and health risks

Background: In recent years, Tehran has faced major problems with air pollution for many reasons, and this issue has become a critical point in most of the days. However, less attention has been paid to the indoor air pollutants in exercise centers and their possible health effects. In this research, it was tried to briefly describe the characteristics and chemical composition of the aerosols p...

Evaluating impacts of air pollution in China on public health: Implications for future air pollution and energy policies

Our objective is to establish the link between energy consumption and technologies, air pollution concentrations, and resulting impacts on public health in eastern China. We use Zaozhuang, a city in eastern China heavily dependent on coal, as a case study to quantify the impacts that air pollution in eastern China had on public health in 2000 and the benefits in improved air quality and health ...