[PDF] air quality and health issues

Exposure to air pollution can affect everyone's health. When we breathe in air pollutants, they can enter our bloodstream and contribute to coughing or itchy eyes and cause or worsen many breathing and lung diseases, leading to hospitalizations, cancer, or even premature death.
View PDF Document


  • Can poor air quality affect your health?

    People who breathe polluted air regularly over several years can develop certain health problems: Chronic lung diseases, such as chronic bronchitis. Cardiovascular diseases, meaning the heart and blood vessels disorders. Lung cancer.30 nov. 2022

  • What are the side effects of bad air quality?

    Health Effects from Specific Pollutants

    Aggravated respiratory disease such as emphysema, bronchitis and asthma.Lung damage, even after symptoms such as coughing or a sore throat disappear.Wheezing, chest pain, dry throat, headache or nausea.Reduced resistance to infections.Increased fatigue.

  • What disease is caused by bad air quality?

    Household air pollution exposure leads to noncommunicable diseases including stroke, ischaemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer.

  • Effects of Air Pollution

    Harming Human Health. Harming Animals and Plants. Causing Acid Rain. Reducing Sunlight. Making a Hole in the Ozone Layer. Adding Too Much Nitrogen to the Land. Effects of Greenhouse Gas Pollution.
View PDF Document




Health & Environmental Effects Of Air Pollution - Mass.Gov

Air pollution is a problem for all of us. However some groups of people are especially sensitive to common air pollutants such as particulates and 



CLIMATE CHANGE DECREASES THE QUALITY OF THE AIR WE

Many communities are already taking steps to address these public health issues and reduce the risk of harm. BACKGROUND. When we burn fossil fuels such as coal 



Report of the Steering Committee on Air Pollution and Health

06-Jan-2014 Collating and critically appraising evidence available both at Indian and global levels linking air pollution exposure to adverse health effects ...



Near Roadway Air Pollution and Health: Frequently Asked

People who live work or attend school near major roads appear to have an increased incidence and severity of health problems associ ated with air pollution 



Evolution of WHO air quality guidelines: past present and future

It outlines the evolution of the scientific evidence on the health effects of air pollution and of its interpretation supporting policy- and other decision- 



A Guide to Air Quality and Your Health. Brochure 2014. EPA-456/F

The AQI focuses on health effects you may experience within a few hours or days after breathing unhealthy air. The AQI is calculated for four major air 



Health-effects-of-particulate-matter-final-Eng.pdf

This paper summarizes the evidence about the health effects of air pollution from particulate matter and their implications for policy-makers 



WHO Guidelines for indoor air quality : selected pollutants

meetings of a research organization active in the field of health effects of air pol- lution which receives funding from the motor vehicle industry and 



Health effects of transport-related air pollution

Air pollution 2.Air pollutants 3.Vehicle emissions – adverse effects. 4.Environmental exposure 5.Health policy 6.Policy making 7.Europe.



EB Document Format

6 May 2016. Health and the environment. Draft road map for an enhanced global response to the adverse health effects of air pollution.