HR: 08:00h
AN: U31A-01    [PDF]
TI: Overview of Issues in Health, Air Pollution, and Climate
AU: * Holloway, T
EM: taholloway@wisc.edu
AF: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies/SAGE 1710 University Ave., Rm 201A, Madison, WI 53726 United States
AU: McKinley, G
EM: galen@alum.mit.edu
AF: Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton, NJ 08540 United States
AB: Air pollution contributes to mortality and respiratory disease worldwide, with developing countries at highest risk. The World Health Organization estimates that between 1.4 and 6 million people die each year from air pollution, and in some populations up to 30 % of all respiratory disease may be linked to air pollution. As the climate changes, increasing temperatures and changing precipitation patterns are expected to yield new health challenges and may worsen existing risks. This talk provides an overview of issues linking health impacts of air pollution and climate change, as an introduction for the session. Increasingly, health-driven projects are employing state-of-the-art modeling and measurement methodologies. We discuss how quantitative assessment methodologies have been used to understand the connections between health, air pollution and climate.
DE: 0345 Pollution--urban and regional (0305)
DE: 1600 GLOBAL CHANGE (New category)
DE: 6300 POLICY SCIENCES
SC: U
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting