Pollution and ill health

Poverty as a cause and consequence of Ill health

Background and aims: Poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon that can be defined in both economic and social terms. The paper attempts to review the existing evidence to understand the relation between poverty and ill health in the context of the limited conceptual and operational definitions of these terms. The paper uses two of Hills criteria- reversibility and dose response relationship to ...

Mental Health and Ill-Health

The words "stress" and "strain" in association with ill-health have in the past few years become commonplace, not only in the vocabulary of medical men, but in everyday speech. The man in the street talks of a friend getting ill or having a nervous breakdown under the strain of overwork ; the doctor talks of a stress condition, and includes under this heading a lengthening list of clinical diso...

Urban air pollution and cardiopulmonary ill health: a 14.5 year time series study.

OBJECTIVES To examine possible associations between daily concentrations of urban air pollutants and hospital emergency admissions and mortality due to cardiac and pulmonary disease. METHODS A time series study was conducted in the City of Edinburgh, which has a population of about 450,000. Poisson log linear regression models were used to investigate the relation of the daily event rate with...

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 ...