[PDF] Top 20 Air Pollution Related to Traffic and Chronic Respiratory Diseases (Asthma and COPD) in Africa

... from traffic [18] [19] ...and traffic jam. The increasing severity and duration of traffic congestion significantly increase pollutant emissions and then deteriorate the air quality, ... See full document

... from chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma, COPD, rhinitis and ...and air pollution in selected chronic respiratory diseases (rhinitis, ... See full document

... of air pollution on prevalence/incidence of COPD in ...that traffic-related air pollution is associated with the prevalence of COPD/chronic bron- chitis in ... See full document

... to traffic-related pollutants has been linked to cough, wheezing, asthma and impaired lung function [3,10-14]; however, it remains unclear whether these effects occur in the whole pediatric popu- ... See full document

... measured traffic-related pollutants and respiratory ...physician-diagnosed asthma in neighborhoods with higher concentrations of traffic ...to traffic and various ... See full document

... on respiratory allergy are still under-studied. Allergic respiratory diseases and asthma are a result of environmental and immunologic ...and asthma and al- lergy, it is important to ... See full document

... various respiratory conditions, as well as of the evidence pointing toward a possible future role in the diagnosis and study of obstructive and inflammatory lung ... See full document

... Respiratory diseases are accompanied by the develop- ment of the chronic inflammatory reaction that greatly aggravates the course and prognosis of the underlying disease ...pulmonary diseases ... See full document

... DX205165 1 0001 tif University of Huddersfield Repository Collins, Susan A GIS approach to modelling traffic related air pollution Original Citation Collins, Susan (1998) A GIS approach to modelling t[.] ... See full document

... cement air pollution on one hand and occurrence of human health diseases on other ...of air pollution linked diseases among the people of sampling ...of respiratory ... See full document

... other traffic-related air ...estimating pollution lev- els, ...fixed-site air quality monitors, may produce results that differ from those reported ... See full document

... Climate affects weather, air and water quality, local and national water and food supplies, economics and other critical health determinants. Observational evi- dence indicates that regional temperature increases ... See full document

... modeled traffic expo- sure were identified based on dates and addresses recorded on the child’s birth certificate and from the residential history ques- ...residence. Traffic- related air ... See full document

... and Krzych 2007; Malec and Borowski 2016]. Obese and older people (over 65 years of age), patients treated for obstructive pulmonary dis- ease or diabetes, and those with chronic respira- tory and cardiovascular ... See full document

... Over the past 20 years there have been a number of stu- dies from across the globe highlighting that TB patients incur substantial costs during care seeking in low and middle income countries. These studies have recently ... See full document

... 2 respiratory signs and evidence of consolidation on a chest ...factors related to socio-demographic factors, drug use, clinical history, contact patterns and exposures to indoor air pollution ... See full document

... with chronic diseases who were allocated to the MGP group and who provided data after one year did not appear to show improvements when compared to patients in the controle ... See full document

... The general attitude of businesses to the expected impacts of the introduction of workplace parking levies (WPL) is similar to those for the introduction of RUC. Again businesses generally expect some non-economic ... See full document

... of asthma-related ...between COPD and ACOS in some patients, because asthma-related symptoms may not only be specific for asthma but may also characterize ... See full document

... Global Asthma Report 2014 NCDs are emerging as a major global public health ...problem. COPD and asthma was an important component of NCDs with regard to morbidity and usually its importance was ... See full document