Front Cover; Air Pollution and Health; Copyright Page; Preface; Contributors; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Air Pollution and Health History; PART 1: GEOGRAPHICAL, ATMOSPHERIC AND GROUND DETERMINANTS OF AIR POLLUTION; PART 2: RESPIRATORY TRACT DETERMINANTS OF AIR POLLUTION EFFECTS; PART 3: GENERAL METHODOLOGICAL AGENTS OF AIR POLLUTANT HEALTH EFFECTS; PART 4: OZONE; PART 5: OXIDES OF NITROGEN AND SULFUR; PART 6: SUSPENDED PARTICULATES; PART 7: CARBON MONOXIDE, LEAD AND AIR TOXICS; PART 8: ESTIMATING HEALTH AND COST IMPACTS
Summary
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 curr
