Sentences with phrase «related effects of air pollution»

Though the health - related effects of air pollution disproportionately figured into the economic losses, Hall and Brajer also found that emergency room visits, work and school absences and several additional factors contributed to the high costs.

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These findings are timely, she adds, because the EPA is currently conducting a comprehensive review of the science related to the health effects of particulate pollution, as mandated by the Clean Air Act.

«Although the link between traffic - related air pollution and left ventricular hypertrophy, heart failure, and cardiovascular death is established, the effects of traffic - related air pollution on the right ventricle have not been well studied,» said lead author Peter Leary, MD, MS, of the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.

In addition, while it has been suggested that a changing climate can exacerbate the effects of air pollution and increase death rates, the study shows that this has a minimal effect and only accounts for a small proportion of current deaths related to air pollution.

In 2013, the science committee subpoenaed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over communications related to a controversial study on the health effects of air pollution known as the Harvard Six Cities Study.

The study is the most detailed assessment to date of the interwoven effects of climate policy on the economy, air pollution, and the cost of health problems related to air pollution.

«Moving from a polluted neighbourhood to a clean area and vice versa would allow us to explore the persistence of the effect related to perinatal exposure and to evaluate the impact of exposure to increased air pollution concentration later in life,» says Heinrich.

In this capacity he has invested a great deal of time and effort on clinical trials examining the effects of broccoli sprouts (which contain phytochemicals extremely closely related to those found in moringa) in protecting against cancers, COPD, asthma, autism, schizophrenia, air pollution injury, and other diverse conditions.

Health - related costs of the current effects of ozone air pollution exceeding national standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based on a U.S. assessment of health impacts from ozone levels during 2000 to 2002.153,154

Tagaris, E., K. J. Liao, A. J. DeLucia, L. Deck, P. Amar, and A. G. Russell, 2009: Potential impact of climate change on air pollution - related human health effects.

Health - related costs of the current effects of ozone air pollution exceeding national standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based on a U.S. assessment of health impacts from ozone levels during 2000 — 2002.

Higher air pollution levels can compound the effects of excessive heat, and vice versa.20 Some of the heat - related deaths in 2003 may also have been smog - related — including one - quarter to three - fifths of the excess deaths in the Netherlands.6

However, sustainable transportation also comprises equity and accesssibility, public heat, such as air pollution and noise but also effects related to physical activity, and time and monetary cost of transportation.

As the custodial agency for Sustainable Development Goal Indicator 3.9.1 (mortality rate from the joint effects of household and ambient air pollution) and 7.1.2 (population with primary reliance on clean fuels and technologies), WHO uses the Household energy database to derive estimates for tracking progress towards achieving universal clean energy access and related health impacts.