EDITORIAL
Air pollution and respiratory health of young children
Think globally, breathe locally
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Correspondence to:
Dr R J Delfino
Epidemiology Division, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-7550, USA; rdelfino@uci.edu
Why the worldwide health impact of air pollution on young children begins in our neighbourhoods
Keywords: air pollutants; vehicle emissions; children
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To date, most epidemiological studies of paediatric pulmonary disease and air pollution have focused on the impacts of air pollutants that are both regulated and monitored on a daily basis by governments. This includes particle mass concentrations and gaseous air pollutants such as ozone and sulfur dioxide. In most studies this has led to the use of available regional air monitoring data. Generally, these approaches have resulted in important new information about ongoing health impacts in many nations or have confirmed previous findings of adverse associations with respiratory morbidity. This has justified calls for greater involvement by citizens, local community organisations, industry, and governments to curb air pollutant exposures.1 However, there is increasing evidence that concentrations of air pollutants—especially particle components and size distributions not routinely monitored—have spatial distributions that can vary by neighbourhood. In urban areas the most prevalent determinant of
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