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The Multiple Benefits of Removing Major Outdoor Air Pollution Point Sources
Ist Teil von
American journal of public health (1971), 2021-05, Vol.111 (5), p.770-772
Ort / Verlag
United States: American Public Health Association
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Children's health is a public health priority, and environmental health is a core tenant of public health. Environmental quality is critical for protecting, sustaining, and promoting human and ecological health. Outdoor air quality is vital to our respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurologic health. Although many natural sources as well as human (or anthropogenic) sources of pollutants are in the air, the largest identifiable outdoor point source of multiple pollutants in our modern society is coal-fired power plants. Their emissions are known to have impacts on local, community, regional, national, and global scales. Power plants simultaneously impact surface water bodies, groundwater aquifers, and soil and sediment downwind and downstream.Copious research appears in peerreviewed clinical, public health, environmental sciences, and engineering journals concerning exposure to environmental asthma triggers found in outdoor air. Many triggers also are found in indoor air from outdoor sources and separate indoor sources in homes, schools, and childcare centers. Extensive research also appears in the same peer-reviewed literature concerning associations between those exposures and various measures of adverse outcomes defining asthmarelated conditions. Susceptible, vulnerable subpopulations include children and adults across multiple age groups. Moreover, disparities-and thus extra vulnerabilities-have existed among racial and ethnic minorities, between urban and suburban and rural areas, and by gender identity. Documented adverse, asthma-related conditions range from daily and nighttime exacerbations of classic symptoms of asthma-cough, wheezing, chest tightness, shortness of breath-to use of controller and rescue or emergency inhaler prescription medication, to more severe metrics such as emergency room or emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and, sadly, deaths. Documented cases include infants and toddlers (i.e., preschool-age children), in whom making a formal diagnosis is harder.