air pollution is a major concern of new civilized world, which has a serious toxicological impact on human health and the environment. it has a number of different emission sources, but motor vehicles and industrial processes contribute the major part of air pollution.according to the world health organization, six major air pollutants include particle pollution, ground?level ozone, carbon mono...

conclusions according to the results obtained, the largest numbers of deaths and illnesses were due to the high average pm10 concentration or an increase in the number of days of exposure to this pollutant. background particulate matters have harmful effects on human health and can intensify mortality and disease. objectives the purpose of this study was to evaluate the health impacts of partic...

although researchers in this decade have proposed several answers concerning the association between socio-economic levels of health, still one question is not well understood: whether in school or domestic environments, low and high socio-economic status may influence asthma and respiratory symptoms on primary school students. the aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which primar...

background: this study was to determine the prevalence of respiratory health complaints, allergy symptom, lung functions, and the association between airborne concentrations of chromium and aluminium with respiratory health and allergy symptoms among machining industry workers in selangor, malaysia. methods: the study design was a cross-sectional comparative study. the respiratory and allergy s...

background: many epidemiological studies reported significant associations between air pollution and respiratory hos­pital admissions. proximity of industries to the residential areas may have considerable impacts on air quality and sub­sequently public health. this paper describes the indirect impacts of closing a large steel industry, broken hill proprie­tary (bhp), in the lower hunter region...