Open AccessAir quality and health impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: an eye on COVID-19
Author(s) -
Mazen Malkawi,
Basel Al-Yousfi,
Ahmed Mandil
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
eastern mediterranean health journal/eastern mediterranean health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1687-1634
pISSN - 1020-3397
DOI - 10.26719/2021.27.1.3
Subject(s) - climate change , air quality index , mediterranean climate , air pollution , environmental science , greenhouse gas , environmental protection , ecosystem , human health , pollutant , atmosphere (unit) , geography , climatology , environmental health , ecology , meteorology , medicine , biology , archaeology , geology
Air quality is intimately linked to human activities, climate, atmosphere and ecosystems. Many of the anthropogenic contributors to air pollution are also sources of greenhouse gases including CO2 and other short-lived climate pollutants, such as Ozone and black carbon, which greatly contribute to the climate change phenomenon and its adverse effects on human health. Unfortunately, fragile and dry ecosystems prevailing in most of our countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region may be implicated for exacerbation of this air pollution and climate change dilemma even more severely.