Assessing the health benefits of reducing particulate matter air pollution in the United States

B Ostro, L Chestnut - Environmental research, 1998 - Elsevier
… several additional health effects, thereby providing a broader quantitative basis for estimating
health benefits. This paper utilizes a similar methodology to quantify the health benefits of …

Outdoor air pollution: particulate matter health effects

TM Chen, WG Kuschner, J Gokhale, S Shofer - … journal of the medical …, 2007 - Elsevier
… linking ambient air particulates with adverse health effects is … suggests particulate-associated
adverse health effects result … Ambient air particulates may increase lung cancer risk. …

Clearing the air: a review of the effects of particulate matter air pollution on human health

JO Anderson, JG Thundiyil, A Stolbach - Journal of medical toxicology, 2012 - Springer
air quality and human disease has been recognized since antiquity, the health effects of air
pollution … In 1930, sulfur dioxide from local factory emissions mixed with a dense fog over the …

A comparison of the health effects of ambient particulate matter air pollution from five emission sources

NJ Hime, GB Marks, CT Cowie - International journal of environmental …, 2018 - mdpi.com
… of health effects associated with exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution from five …
The principal purpose of this review is to compare the evidence of health effects associated …

Particulate matter air pollution: effects on the cardiovascular system

RB Hamanaka, GM Mutlu - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
… of particulate matter (PM) air pollution on health than the gaseous components. PM has
wide-ranging deleterious effects on human health, … by air pollution-associated health effects, the …

Health benefits of air pollution reduction

DE Schraufnagel, JR Balmes, S De Matteis… - Annals of the …, 2019 - atsjournals.org
Emissions of the major pollutants (particulate matter [PM], sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides,
carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, and lead) were reduced by 73% between 1990 …

The health benefits of air pollution control in Delhi

ML Cropper, NB Simon, A Alberini, S Arora… - American Journal of …, 1997 - JSTOR
… Levels of particulate matter, for instance, are often … of air pollution on mortality may be
especially misleading. This paper reports the results of a study relating levels of particulate matter

World air particulate matter: sources, distribution and health effects

A Mukherjee, M Agrawal - Environmental chemistry letters, 2017 - Springer
… PM 10 (particulate matter having particle size 10 micrometers or less in diameter) is one
of the major air pollutants having made up of solid and liquid particles floating in …

Health benefits of achieving fine particulate matter standards in India–A nationwide assessment

N Manojkumar, B Srimuruganandam - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
… Although the Indian government is taking immense efforts to reduce air pollutant levels,
the studies on health benefits of achieving various air pollution control policies, national …

Public health benefits of reducing exposure to ambient fine particulate matter in South Africa

KE Altieri, SL Keen - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
… PM 2.5 size range (particulate matter <2.5 μm in diameter). … As such, even if the air pollution
levels in South Africa were … sensitive to the health effects of air pollution than populations in …