Vehicular carbon monoxide screening: identification in a cross-cultural setting of a substantial public health risk factor. | Zendy

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Vehicular carbon monoxide screening: identification in a cross-cultural setting of a substantial public health risk factor.

Author(s) -

Robyn Williams

Publication year - 1985

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.75.1.85

Subject(s) - environmental health , public health , agency (philosophy) , medicine , population , poison control , occupational safety and health , suicide prevention , carbon monoxide poisoning , injury prevention , risk factor , medical emergency , nursing , philosophy , epistemology , pathology

A community program of screening and education for prevention of vehicular carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning among a high-risk population in a cross-cultural setting is presented. The program was developed after two infant deaths in separate incidents of vehicular CO poisoning. The results of the screening show 18.6 per cent of vehicles exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency eight-hour standard for CO exposure, and 2.6 per cent exceeding the one-hour standard. Extension of such programs to other high-risk populations is recommended.

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