Open AccessHealth damage from current air pollution levels
Author(s) -
Robinson Dorothy L.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 1326-0200
DOI - 10.1111/1753-6405.12379
Subject(s) - current (fluid) , air pollution , environmental health , environmental science , medicine , engineering , chemistry , electrical engineering , organic chemistry
In 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended concentrationresponse functions (CRF) for three major pollutants: fine particles (PM2.5), ozone (O3) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in its Health Risks of Air Pollution in Europe (HRAPIE) report.3 Effects were classified into two groups: group A (pollutant-outcome pairs for which enough data are available to enable reliable quantification of effects); and group B (pollutant–outcome pairs for which there is more uncertainty about the precision of the data used to quantify the effects).3 Subsets were then chosen to identify pollutants whose effects were considered to be additive.