scholarly journals Air Pollution in Poland: A 2022 Narrative Review with Focus on Respiratory Diseases

2022 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 895
Author(s):  
Wojciech Nazar ◽  
Marek Niedoszytko
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Ambient Air Pollution ◽  
World Bank Group ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Pollution Levels

According to the World Bank Group, 36 of the 50 most polluted cities in the European Union are in Poland. Thus, ambient air pollution and its detrimental health effects are a matter of immense importance in Poland. This narrative review aims to analyse current findings on air pollution and health in Poland, with a focus on respiratory diseases, including COVID-19, as well as the Poles’ awareness of air pollution. PubMed, Scopus and Google Scholar databases were searched. In total, results from 71 research papers were summarized qualitatively. In Poland, increased air pollution levels are linked to increased general and respiratory disease mortality rates, higher prevalence of respiratory diseases, including asthma, lung cancer and COVID-19 infections, reduced forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FVC). The proximity of high traffic areas exacerbates respiratory health problems. People living in more polluted regions (south of Poland) and in the winter season have a higher level of air pollution awareness. There is an urgent need to reduce air pollution levels and increase public awareness of this threat. A larger number of multi-city studies are needed in Poland to consistently track the burden of diseases attributable to air pollution.

scholarly journals Decline of Ambient Air Pollution Levels and Improved Respiratory Health in Swiss Children

2005 ◽  
Vol 113 (11) ◽  
pp. 1632-1637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Bayer-Oglesby ◽  
Leticia Grize ◽  
Markus Gassner ◽  
Kathy Takken-Sahli ◽  
Felix H. Sennhauser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Respiratory Health ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Ambient Air Pollution ◽  
Pollution Levels

scholarly journals Effects of AIR pollution on cardiopuLmonary disEaSe in urban and peri-urban reSidents in Beijing: protocol for the AIRLESS study

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (24) ◽  
pp. 15775-15792
Author(s):  
Yiqun Han ◽  
Wu Chen ◽  
Lia Chatzidiakou ◽  
Anika Krause ◽  
Li Yan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Particulate Matter ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Personal Exposure ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Ambient Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Cardiopulmonary Disease ◽  
Pollution Levels ◽  
Large Scale Field

Abstract. Beijing, as a representative megacity in China, is experiencing some of the most severe air pollution episodes in the world, and its fast urbanization has led to substantial urban and peri-urban disparities in both health status and air quality. Uncertainties remain regarding the possible causal links between individual air pollutants and health outcomes, with spatial comparative investigations of these links lacking, particularly in developing megacities. In light of this challenge, Effects of AIR pollution on cardiopuLmonary disEaSe in urban and peri-urban reSidents in Beijing (AIRLESS) was initiated, with the aim of addressing the complex issue of relating multi-pollutant exposure to cardiopulmonary outcomes. This paper presents the novel methodological framework employed in the project, namely (1) the deployment of two panel studies from established cohorts in urban and peri-urban Beijing, with different exposure settings regarding pollution levels and diverse sources; (2) the collection of detailed measurements and biomarkers of participants from a nested case (hypertensive) and control (healthy) study setting; (3) the assessment of indoor and personal exposure to multiple gaseous pollutants and particulate matter at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution with validated novel sensor technologies; (4) the assessment of ambient air pollution levels in a large-scale field campaign, particularly the chemical composition of particulate matter. Preliminary results showed that there is a large difference between ambient and personal air pollution levels, and the differences varied between seasons and locations. These large differences were reflected on the different health responses between the two panels.

scholarly journals APExpose_DE, an air quality exposure dataset for Germany 2010–2019

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Caseiro ◽  
Erika von Schneidemesser
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Time Resolution ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Ambient Air Pollution ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Resolution Level

AbstractExposure to poor air quality is considered a major influence on the occurrence of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Air pollution has also been linked to the severity of the effects of epidemics such as COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Epidemiological studies require datasets of the long-term exposure to air pollution. We present the APExpose_DE dataset, a long-term (2010–2019) dataset providing ambient air pollution metrics at yearly time resolution for NO2, NO, O3, PM10 and PM2.5 at the NUTS-3 spatial resolution level for Germany (corresponding to the Landkreis or Kreisfreie Stadt in Germany, 402 in total).

Time series regression to identifying the relationship between air pollution and health in Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 04 (04) ◽  
pp. 40-52
Author(s):  
Thuy Linh Nguyen ◽  
◽  
Tu Le ◽  
Thi Kim Ngan Nguyen ◽  
Thi Bich Lien Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Environmental Epidemiology ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Outcome Data ◽  
Ambient Air Pollution ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Time Series Regression ◽  
Pollution Levels

Time series has been widely used in environmental epidemiology; especially in identifying the short-term associations between ambient air pollution and health outcomes. For both exposure and outcome, data are available at regular time intervals (daily hospital admissions and pollution levels) to explore short-term associations between them. In this article, we described main steps to conduct time series regression and highlighted some key ideas when applying this technique. A sample data was used to investigate short-term association between PM10 and daily hospital admission among children in Hanoi between 2008 and 2016. This analysis was conducted with R software. Keywords: time series, air pollution, short-term effect

scholarly journals Lung Function of Children at Three Sites of Varying Ambient Air Pollution Levels in Uganda: A Cross Sectional Comparative Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 2653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Kirenga ◽  
Rebecca Nantanda ◽  
Corina de Jong ◽  
Levicatus Mugenyi ◽  
Qingyu Meng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Lung Function ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Model ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Ambient Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Residence ◽  
Biomass Smoke ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Pollution Levels ◽  
Lower Lung

Air pollution is a major cause of sub-optimal lung function and lung diseases in childhood and adulthood. In this study we compared the lung function (measured by spirometry) of 537 Ugandan children, mean age 11.1 years in sites with high (Kampala and Jinja) and low (Buwenge) ambient air pollution levels, based on the concentrations of particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometres in diameter (PM2.5). Factors associated with lung function were explored in a multiple linear regression model. PM2.5 level in Kampala, Jinja and Buwenge were 177.5 µg/m3, 96.3 µg/m3 and 31.4 µg/m3 respectively (p = 0.0000). Respectively mean forced vital capacity as % of predicted (FVC%), forced expiratory volume in one second as % of predicted (FEV1%) and forced expiratory flow 25–75% as % of predicted (FEF25–75%) of children in high ambient air pollution sites (Kampala and Jinja) vs. those in the low ambient air pollution site (Buwenge subcounty) were: FVC% (101.4%, vs. 104.0%, p = 0.043), FEV1% (93.9% vs. 98.0, p = 0.001) and FEF25–75% (87.8 vs. 94.0, p = 0.002). The proportions of children whose %predicted parameters were less than 80% predicted (abnormal) were higher among children living in high ambient air pollution than those living in lower low ambient air pollutions areas with the exception of FVC%; high vs. low: FEV1 < 80%, %predicted (12.0% vs. 5.3%, p = 0.021) and FEF25–75 < 80%, %predicted (37.7% vs. 29.3%, p = 0.052) Factors associated with lung function were (coefficient, p-value): FVC% urban residence (−3.87, p = 0.004), current cough (−2.65, p = 0.048), underweight (−6.62, p = 0.000), and overweight (11.15, p = 0.000); FEV1% underweight (−6.54, p = 0.000) and FEF25–75% urban residence (−8.67, p = 0.030) and exposure to biomass smoke (−7.48, p = 0.027). Children in study sites with high ambient air pollution had lower lung function than those in sites with low ambient air pollution. Urban residence, underweight, exposure to biomass smoke and cough were associated with lower lung function.

Global Environmentalism and the World-System: A Cross-National Analysis of Air Pollution

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Andrew Mejia
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
World System ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Ambient Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Regime ◽  
Pollution Levels ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The World ◽  
National Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

Ambient air pollution represents a global health crisis, leading to 7 million annual deaths worldwide. The rise of a “global environmental regime” manifests in the widespread adoption of environmental policies and laws to reduce ambient air pollution, but debate remains whether they have any effect. Scholars argue that the relationship between the global environmental regime and air pollution depends on the penetration of the global environmental regime. In this analysis, I argue that the relationship between the global environmental regime and air pollution levels is contingent on a country’s position in the world-system. Using fixed effects panel analyses of 144 countries from 1990 to 2010, I find embeddedness in the global environmental regime does predict lower national air pollution levels. This effect, however, is smaller in semi-peripheral and peripheral countries. These findings contribute to an emerging body of scholarship integrating world society and world systems approaches in the study of the environment.

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