Air pollution and health / Edición, Stephen T. Holgate ... [et al.].

Concern about the impact of air pollution has led governments and local authorities across the world to regulate, among other things, the burning of fossil fuels, industrial effluence, cigarette smoke, and aerosols. This legislation has often followed dramatic findings about the impact of pollution on human health. At the same time there have been significant developments in our ability to detect and quantify pollutants and a proliferation of urban and rural air pollution networks to monitor levels of atmospheric contamination.

Air Pollution and Health is the first fully comprehensive and current account of air pollution science and it impact on human health. It ranges in scope from meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, and particle physics to the causes and scope of allergic reactions and respiratory, cardiovascular, and related disorders. The book has substantial international coverage and includes sections on cost implications, risk assessment, regulation, standards, and information networks. The multidisciplinary approach and the wide range of issues covered makes this an essential book for all concerned with monitoring and regulating air pollution as well as those concerned with its impact on human health.

Key Features:
* Only comprehensive text covering all the important air pollutants and relating these to human health and regulatory bodies
* Brings together a wide range of issues concerning air pollution in an easily accessible format
* Contributions from government agencies in the US and UK provide information on public policy and resource networks in the areas of health promotion and environmental protection

Edited by Stephen T. Holgate, Jonathan M. Samet, Hillel S. Koren, Robert L. Maynard.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

1. Introduction.--
2. Air Pollution and Health History.--
3. Basic Meteorology.--
4. Atmospheric Chemistry.--
5. Measurements of Concentrations of Air Pollutants.--
6. Patterns of Air Pollution in Developed Countries.--
7. Patterns of Air Pollution in Developing Countries.--
8. Sources of Air Pollution.--
9. Exposure Assessment.--
10. Animal Models to Study for Pollutant Effects.--
11. Novel Approaches to Study Nasal Responses to Air Pollution.--
12. Effects of Cigarette Smoke and Air Pollutants on the Lower Respiratory Tract.--
13. Structure-Function Relationships.--
14. Deposition and Clearance of Inhaled Particles.--
15. Respiratory Reflexes.--
16. Antioxidant Defences in the Extracellular Compartment of the Human Lung.--
17. Air pollutants: modulators of pulmonary host resistance against infection.--
18. Carcinogenic Responses to Air Pollutants.--
19. Biomarkers of Exposure.--
20. The Epidemiologic Approach to Investigating Outdoor Air Pollution.--
21. Health Effects of Air Pollution Episodes.--
22. Epidemiological Studies of Ozone Exposure Effects.--
23. Controlled Exposure to Ozone, Nitrogen Oxides and Acids.--
24. Acute and Chronic Effects of Ozone in Animal Models.--
25. Epidemiological Effects of Oxides of Nitrogen, Especially NO².--
26. Toxicology of Sulfur Oxides.--
27. Acid Sulfate Aerosols and Health.--
28. Composition of Air Pollution Particles.--
29. Metals and Air Pollution Particles.--
30. Particulate Air Pollution: Injurious and Protective Mechanisms in the Lungs.--
31. Epidemiology of Particle Effects.--
32. The Health Effects of Diesel Exhaust: Laboratory and Epidemiologic Studies.--
33. Carbon Monoxide.--
34. Lead.--
35. Selected Organic Chemicals.--
36. Air Pollution and Lung Cancer.--
37. Controlled Exposures of Asthmatics to Air Pollutants.--
38. Risk Assessment and Air Pollution.--
39. Estimating the Effects of Air Pollutants on the Population: Human Health Benefits of Sulfate Aerosol Reductions under Title IV of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments.--
40. Costing the Health Effects of Poor Air Quality.--
41. Technology and Costing of Air Pollution Abatement.--
42. United States and International Approaches to Establishing Air Standards and Guidelines.--
43. Air Quality Guidelines and Standards.--
44. Informing the Public about Air Pollution.

Geographical, atmospheric and ground determinants of aire pollution -- Respiratory tract determinants of air pollution effects -- General methodological agents of air pollutant health effect -- Ozone -- Oxides of nitrogen and sulfur -- Suspended particulates -- Carbon monoxide, lead and air toxics -- Estimating health and cost impacts -- Air quality standards and information networks.

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