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AIR QUALITY AND CHILDREN’S HEALTH: THE ROLE OF INCREASING TRANSPORT-RELATED AND THERMAL AIR POLLUTION

2019; ECO-vector; Volume: 26; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.33396/1728-0869-2019-11-12-19

2949-1444

Е. А. Чанчаева, O. V. Gvozdareva, Alexey Gvozdarev,

Climate Change and Health Impacts

We performed a literature review on the associations between quality with special emphasis on increasing transport and thermal air pollution. Motor vehicles and coal boilers are the main anthropogenic sources of emissions of pollutants into the air. Attempts to reduce their content in the air currently do not bring the desired result, the exhaust of internal combustion engines and combustion products of solid fuel remain the main polluting factors. Air quality in residential areas is influenced by climatic and natural peculiarities of the regions (weather, terrain, etc.). Respiratory diseases, including acute respiratory infections and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer are significantly associated with air pollution in adults. A child's body is highly sensitive to the environmental factors which allows us to consider children's health as an indicator of the state of the environmental pooluiton. The deterioration of the ecological state of the air environment in Gorno-Altaisk (Altay region of Russia) is associated with increasing transport load, solid fuel stationary sources, and transport of pollutants from neighboring regions. Air pollution in the region needs to be monitored and addressed. This requires zoning of residential areas according to the degree of air pollution and analysis of the health of children as the most vulnerable part of the population, taking into account the environmental situation.