Links to More Information on the Health Effects of Air Pollution
Info about Air Quality Monitoring
American Lung Association (www.lungusa.org)
The Lung Association site is chock full of fact sheets on air quality,
air-related illness and human health impacts of air pollution. It also
allows you to access information in Spanish.
Health-Track (www.health-track.org)
The mission of Health-Track is to help American families and communities
identify and track the links between environmental hazards and illnesses and
to provide researchers and public health officials with the necessary tools
to prevent disease. Good resource for latest information on health effects
of pollution and state by state news.
http://www.aqmd.gov/forstudents/ Great new California website on ozone
and air pollution, with graphic moving lungs in color and good visuals of
lung tissues under a microscope highlighting how pollution damages the
lung's sensitive cells! Includes links to websites on air pollution,
discusses asthma and the environment; helps with homework assignments on air
pollution, and provides information in Spanish.
Pubmed. (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)
Part of the National Institute of Health's National Library of Medicine.
Developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature. Access to
over 10 million citations, and numerous online publications. Go to the home
page and click on PubMed. The search engine is easy to use. You can find all
articles related to a particular issue (ozone, particulate matter, etc) or
all articles by a specific researcher.
Health-Track (www.health-track.org)
The mission of Health-Track is to help American families and communities
identify and track the links between environmental hazards and illnesses and
to provide researchers and public health officials with the necessary tools
to prevent disease. A good resource for the latest information on health
effects of pollution and state by state news.
Our Stolen Future (www.ourstolenfuture.org)
The book by Theo Coleman, Diane Dumanosici and John Peterson Myers is now a
web site. Follow the emerging science and debates about new advances in
toxicology that challenge basic assumptions about which chemicals are safe
and what exposures are tolerable. Emphasis on chemicals like dioxin, known
as "endocrine disruptors" which are being linked to widespread changes in
human reproductive health. Waste-burning cemetn kilns emit a variety of
these kinds of chemicals.
Rachel's (www.rachel.org/home_eng.htm)
This newsletter is one of the best resources for citizens researching
pollution and its health effects. Named after legendary environmentalist
Rachel Carson, it's one of the most effective watchdogs of industry. Not
every issue will have information on health effects, but access to archives
gives you a good library on the most recent science regarding a variety of
pollutants, including dioxin, endocrine disruptors and particulate matter.
