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Book SynopsisAir Pollution and Community Health A Critical Review and Data Sourcebook Frederick W. Lipfert Air pollution has affected community health since the advent of the industrial age and arguably since the discovery of fire. While organized societies have taken important steps to reduce and control emissions, the quality of the air we breathe today remains a critical concern. Air Pollution and Community Health transforms the major epidemiological works of the past 40 years into a coherent picture of the effects of air pollution on respiration, hospitalization, and mortality. The book re-evaluates these studies to clarify their findings within a consistent analytical framework and to define statistical relationships between various measures of community health and air quality. Lipfert emphasizes observational studies and the quality of the data used. The book is organized by health endpoint rather than by pollutant, beginning with the major air pollution disasters that helped galvanize the en
Table of ContentsPurpose and Scope.
A Primer on Air Pollution, Past and Present.
Methodological and Statistical Considerations.
A Primer on Physiological Effects of Air Pollution and Measurementof Respiratory Function.
MORTALITY STUDIES.
The Air Pollution Disasters.
Time-Series Studies of Mortality.
Cross-Sectional Studies of Long-Term Effects on Mortality.
Long-Term Temporal Studies of Mortality.
STUDIES OF SELECTED MORBIDITY EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION.
Temporal Studies of Air Pollution and Hospital Use.
Cross-Sectional Studies of Hospital Use/Summary of HospitalizationStudies.
Air Pollution Effects on Lung Function.
SYNTHESIS AND CONCLUSIONS.
Respiratory Function as a Predictor of Mortality.
Summary, Conclusions, and Implications.
Index.
