Diseases and Health Consequences of Air Pollution

Volume 3: Air Pollution, Human Health, and the Environment

Mohammad Hadi Dehghani,Rama Rao Karri,Teresa Vera,Salwa Kamal Mohamed Hassan

• Verlag: Academic Press
• Jahr: 2024
• ISBN:
  9780443160813
• Thema: Medicina
• Thema: Toxicología

Diseases and Health Consequences of Air Pollution, Volume Three, Air Pollution, Human Health, and the Environment is part of a three-volume series. This volume focuses on epidemiological studies and diseases attributed to ambient and indoor air pollutants. It opens with an overview of diseases and health consequences due to air pollution. The chapters discuss health conditions such as respiratory issues, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and blood pressure, diabetes, nervous system, brain, cancer, stroke—cerebrovascular disease, and skin disease that are linked to exposure to indoor and outdoor air pollutants. The book also evaluates the health cost and economic burden of air pollution and offers risk management and solutions to mitigate the health implications of indoor and ambient air pollution. This book provides a single source solution and the latest information about the diseases attributed to air pollutants and their health impact. It will be a valuable reference for academicians, researchers, and students in environmental health, public health, and occupational health, as well as environmental engineers, meteorologists, epidemiologists, medical researchers, and environmental toxicologists.

• Discusses diseases attributed to air pollutants
• Explains the mechanism of air pollutants on human organs
• Examines human epidemiological studies and case studies on disease outcomes due to air pollutants
• Covers health cost and economic burden evaluation of air pollution

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• List of contributors
• About the editors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Overview of diseases and health consequences due to air pollution
• Chapter 2. Respiratory diseases caused by air pollutants
• Chapter 3. Air pollution and the burden of cardiovascular disease—looking at inequalities across the EU-27
• Chapter 4. Air pollution and cancer
• Chapter 5. A review of the association of air pollution on pregnant health
• Chapter 6. A review of diseases attributed to air pollution and associated health issues: a case study of Indian metropolitan cities
• Chapter 7. Association between long term air pollution and increased blood pressure and hypertension
• Chapter 8. A comprehensive review of the relationship between air pollution and type 2 diabetes
• Chapter 9. Air pollution and the skin diseases
• Chapter 10. A comprehensive review of the relationship between air pollution and cardiovascular disease
• Chapter 11. A review of economic burden and negative health impacts due to air pollution
• Index