Quantification of the effects of air pollution on health in the United Kingdom

90 Pages·1998·6.2 MB·English

by  Great Britain. Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Committee on the Medical Effects
of Air Pollutants
Quantification of the
Effects of Air Pollution on
Health in the United Kingdom
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QUANTIFICATION OF THE EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION ON HEALTH IN THE
UNITED KINGDOM
Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants
ISBN 0 11 322102 9
CORRECTION
Table 6.2 (page 38) Summary of APHEA estimates for ozone
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65+ a O58 1.018, 1.058
and should be followed by a new line:
COPD admissions Lose 8 1.043 1.022, 1.065
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
We wish to thank Dr John Stedman of AEA Technology, National Environmental Technology Centre, Culham, Abingdon,
Oxfordshire, who undertook all the calculations reported in Chapter 8. This report could not have been completed without
his expert assistance.
We are grateful to Aurelio Tobias of the Respiratory and Environmental Health Research Unit, IMIM, Barcelona, for supplying
Figures Al.1 and Al.2 which appear in Appendix 1.
We are grateful to the World Health Organization which supplied data used in the calculations reported in Chapter 8.
We are grateful for the assistance of the Lung and Asthma Information Agency.
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Contents
Contents
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Chapter 1: Executive Summary l
Chapter 2: Introduction 2
Chapter 3: Particulate Matter 13
Chapter 4: Sulphur Dioxide Zo
Chapter 5: Nitrogen Dioxide 2g
Chapter 6: Ozone 39
Chapter 7: Carbon Monoxide 4]
Chapter 8: Quantification of the Effects of Air Pollution on Health in the United Kingdom Dt
Chapter 9: Summary and Conclusions ai
Appendix I: Causality and Air Pollution 61
Appendix 2: Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations Zi
Appendix 3: Membership of Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants 75
Appendix 4: Membership of Sub-Group on Quantification of the Effects of Air Pollution on Health in the
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