RT Book, Section
A1 Samet, Jonathan M.
A1 Zhang, Jim
A2 Boulton, Matthew L.
A2 Wallace, Robert B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182673267
T1 Air Pollution
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259644511
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182673267
RD 2024/10/04
AB In  2020  as  this  chapter  was  written,  the  scientific  evidence  is  certain:  ambient  air  pollution,  that  is,  contamination  of  outdoor  air  consequent  to  human  activities,  is  a  major,  global  cause  of  morbidity  (ill  health)  and  premature  mortality  (early  death).1  While  the  rise  of  ambient  or  outdoor  air  pollution  is  relatively  recent  in  a  historical  context,  air  pollution  has  probably  had  adverse  effects  on  human  health  throughout  history.  The  use  of  fire  for  heating  and  cooking  came  with  exposure  to  smoke  outdoors  and  indoors,  an  exposure  that  persists  today  for  the  billions  who  use  biomass  fuels  for  cooking  and  heating.  The  rise  of  cities  concentrated  the  emissions  of  pollutants  from  dwellings  and  industry  and  led  to  air  pollution  that  received  comment  and  was  considered  a  danger  to  health.  The  problem  of  air  pollution  received  attention  centuries  ago  in  London,  polluted  by  widespread  coal  burning.2  However,  regulation  was  resisted  even  then.