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More Californians suffer from asthma due to pollution
Xinhua, China -
"Without insurance and quality medical care, children and adults with asthma suffer far more than they should," said Sue Babey, co-author of the report.
Asthma costs Californians 3.9 million days of work or school a year UC Los Angeles
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Kids Face Additional Risk From Bad Air Quality
CBS13.com, CA - Jul 7, 2008
Some experts say the bad air has a greater impact on kids than healthy adults, and Roseville officials have begun taking steps to limit children's exposure. ...
烤鸭必读：2008年夏季雅思写作总结
新浪网, China - 49 minutes ago
Long-distance air-travels waste more energy and produce more pollution than cars. Some people think we should restrict unnecessary air travels, ...

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The air is hot, humid and unhealthy
Boston Globe, United States -
When ozone levels are high, people should avoid strenuous activity - especially sensitive populations such as children and adults with respiratory problems, ...
Poor Ozone Air Quality Predicted in Most of New England for ... U.S. EPA.gov (press release)
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Central Valley air officials issue smoke caution
Central Valley Business Times, CA -
Additionally, older adults and children should avoid prolonged exposure, strenuous activities or heavy exertion. Everyone else should reduce prolonged ...
Bad air day: Ozone advisory issued for Wednesday
East Valley Tribune, AZ -
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is advising active children and adults, and people with lung disease, to reduce prolonged or heavy outdoor ...
Falling air quality prompts health advisory
Sacramento Bee,  USA - Jul 7, 2008
By Niesha Lofing - nlofing@sacbee.com Air quality in the Sacramento region has plummeted again because of smoke from wildfires burning in Northern ...
This Air Quality Advisory is valid for: Monday, July 7, 2008 ... YubaNet
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Residents Warned Of Unhealthy Air Quality
WMUR, NH -
State officials warned that air quality was unhealthy for sensitive groups, such as people with respiratory illness, older adults and young children. ...
High temperature records fall around Bay Area
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 24 minutes ago
Smoke from the hundreds of wildfires burning in California, along with ozone pollution piling up because of a lack of wind, prompted the Bay Area Air ...
Central Ohio Under Air Quality Alert For Today
NBC4i.com, OH - Jul 7, 2008
... active children and older adults. Today makes the fourth air quality alert of 2008 for Central Ohio. The last alert was issued on June 6. ...
Air quality alert for today, Tuesday Coshocton Tribune
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Association between Air Pollution and Lung Function Growth in Southern California Children -
W JAMES GAUDERMAN, ROB Mc CONNELL, F GILLILAND, S … - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2000 - Am Thoracic Soc
... Chronic health effects from exposure to air pollution have been ... remains uncertain
(1, 2, 5). Children may be ... and have higher ventilation rates than adults (8). ...

Chronic respiratory symptoms in children and adults living along streets with high traffic density. -
A Oosterlee, M Drijver, E Lebret, B Brunekreef - Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 1996 - pt.wkhealth.com
... of wheeze were consistently higher than one, whereas in adults only dyspnoea ... in
susceptibility to ambient traffic related air pollution between adults ...

Public-health impact of outdoor and traffic-related air pollution: a European assessment -
N K?nzli, R Kaiser, S Medina, M Studnicka, O … - The Lancet, 2000 - Elsevier
... About half of all mortality caused by air pollution was attributed to motorised ... than
25 000 new cases of chronic bronchitis (adults); more than 290 000 ...

Respiratory disease associated with community air pollution and a steel mill, Utah Valley -
CA Pope 3rd - American Journal of Public Health, 1989 - Am Public Health Assoc
... hospital admissions and fine particulate pollution (PM10) in ... with mean PM10 levels
greater than or equal to ... even though relatively stagnant air was experienced ...

The effects of air pollution on children. -
DV Bates - Environmental Health Perspectives, 1995 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... By virtue of physical activity out of doors when pollution levels may be high, children
may experience higher exposures than adults. Air pollution is likely to ...

Exacerbations of childhood asthma and ozone pollution in Atlanta. -
MC White, RA Etzel, WD Wilcox, C Lloyd - Environ Res, 1994 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... in rates have been higher for blacks than whites and higher for children than adults.
Whether environmental factors such as air pollution contribute to these ...

Adolescent (in) vulnerability. -
MJ Quadrel, B Fischhoff, W Davis - Am Psychol, 1993 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... as less vulnerable than their teenage children by both ... pregnancy, mugging, sickness
from air pollution or pesticides ... was not any greater for teens than adults. ...

… of the relationships between environmental factors (aeroallergens, air pollution, and weather) and … -
I Rosas, HA McCartney, RW Payne, C Calderon, J … - Allergy: European Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology, 1998 - pt.wkhealth.com
... M?xico, about 3 km from INER and 2 km from the air-pollution monitoring site ... a larger
proportion of cases of children from July to November than of adults. ...

[BOOK] Raising children in a socially toxic environment -
J Garbarino - 1995 - aifs.org.au
... to lead and smoke in the air, PCBs in ... to every cultural poison they encounter than
are children ... When airborne pollution gets really bad, who suffers first and ...
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… between Ozone and Hospitalization for Acute Respiratory Diseases in Children Less than 2 Years of … -
RT Burnett, M Smith-Doiron, D Stieb, ME Raizenne, … - American Journal of Epidemiology, 2001 - Oxford Univ Press
... and 5.3 ?g/m 3 in daily average sulfate) than in older children or adults (13 ). ...
and the total population in relation to air pollution, although effects ...

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Air Pollution: Children More At Risk Than Adults

Children are more vulnerable than adults to the adverse effects of air pollution for several reasons. First, children have increased exposure to many air pollutants because they spend more time outside, have higher breathing rates and higher levels of physical activity compared with adults. In addition, the human lung continues to develop through adolescence, and exposure to harmful air pollutants during childhood has an important impact on lung development.

In a revised policy statement entitled, "Ambient Air Pollution: Health Hazards to Children" the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advises that not only can outdoor air pollution exacerbate asthma in some children, but recent studies have found that pollution has the potential to negatively affect lung growth and function, and to increase cases of respiratory tract illness, preterm birth and infant mortality. The elderly and adults with cardiovascular disease are populations also at higher health risk from air pollution due to fine particles, such as soot and smoke.

According to the policy statement, exposure to traffic-related pollution, such as exhaust emissions from cars and diesel exhaust from trucks and even school buses, increases a child's risk of respiratory complications as well as lifetime risk of cancer.
The statement indicates that pediatricians play an essential part in educating local and national representatives, policy makers, children with asthma or chronic respiratory tract disease and school sports officials about the harmful health effects of air pollution, and advocating for prevention policies at the state and local level.

The Academy also makes the following recommendations in the policy statement:

- Areas with poor air quality should alert local residents about potential health hazards.
- Industrial mercury emissions need to be lowered.
- Local and federal government should encourage mass transit and car pooling.
- Old power plants should be closed or retrofitted if they don't meet current standards.
- Programs that exempt some passenger vehicles (e.g., SUV's, minivans, and light-duty trucks) from fuel-economy standards should be eliminated.
- New schools should be built away from "hot spots" of localized pollution.

The policy adds that pediatricians who serve as physicians for schools or for team sports should be aware of the health implications of pollution alerts to provide appropriate guidance to school and sports officials, particularly in communities with high ozone levels.

The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults.

American Academy of Pediatrics

 
 
 
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