Ambient air pollution and health impact in China

This book focuses on the health impacts of air pollution in China, especially the epidemiology-based exposure-response functions for the mortality, morbidity, and hospital admissions for respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer, and mental health related to pollution. It also provi...

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Other Authors Dong, Guang-Hui
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore : Springer, ©2017.
SeriesAdvances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 1017.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789811056574
9789811056567
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps

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Table of Contents:
  • Urgency to assess the health impact of ambient air pollution in China / Bo-Yi Yang [and 4 others]
  • Characteristics of major air pollutants in China / Lihong Ren, Wen Yang, and Zhipeng Bai
  • Human exposure assessment for air pollution / Bin Han, Li-Wen Hu, and Zhipeng Bai
  • Ambient air polltuion and biomarkers of health effect / Di Yang [and 3 others]
  • Air pollution and mortality in China / Hualiang Lin [and 6 others]
  • Ambient air pollution and morbidity in Chinese / Li-Wen Hu [and 6 others]
  • Air pollution and children's health in Chinese / Wei-Wei Lin [and 4 others]
  • The associations between air pollution and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China / Yafei Tan [and 5 others]
  • Comparison of health impact of air pollution between China and other countries / Linwei Tian and Shengzhi Sun
  • Air pollution, disease burden, and health economic loss in China / Yue Niu, Renjie Chen, and Haidong Kan
  • Air polluion prevention and control policy in China / Cunrui Huang [and 5 others]
  • Perspective for future research direction about health impact of ambient air pollution in China / Guang-Hui Dong
  • Index.