
Diseases and Health Consequences of Air Pollution
Volume 3: Air Pollution, Human Health, and the Environment
- 1st Edition - April 2, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Mohammad Hadi Dehghani, Rama Rao Karri, Teresa Vera, Salwa Kamal Mohamed Hassan
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 6 0 8 0 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 6 0 8 1 - 3
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Request a sales quoteDiseases and Health Consequences of Air Pollution, Volume Three, Air Pollution, Human Health, and the Environment is part of a three-volume series. This volume focuses on epidemiological studies and diseases attributed to ambient and indoor air pollutants. It opens with an overview of diseases and health consequences due to air pollution. The chapters discuss health conditions such as respiratory issues, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and blood pressure, diabetes, nervous system, brain, cancer, stroke—cerebrovascular disease, and skin disease that are linked to exposure to indoor and outdoor air pollutants.
The book also evaluates the health cost and economic burden of air pollution and offers risk management and solutions to mitigate the health implications of indoor and ambient air pollution. This book provides a single source solution and the latest information about the diseases attributed to air pollutants and their health impact. It will be a valuable reference for academicians, researchers, and students in environmental health, public health, and occupational health, as well as environmental engineers, meteorologists, epidemiologists, medical researchers, and environmental toxicologists.
- Discusses diseases attributed to air pollutants
- Explains the mechanism of air pollutants on human organs
- Examines human epidemiological studies and case studies on disease outcomes due to air pollutants
- Covers health cost and economic burden evaluation of air pollution
Rama Rao Karri and Mohammad Hadi M. H. Dehghani
2. Respiratory diseases caused by air pollutants
Kurnia Ardiansyah Akbar, H. Jasmine Chao, Nawhath Thanvisitthpon, Pokkate Wongsasuluk, and Kraiwuth Kallawicha
3. Air pollution and the burden of cardiovascular disease - looking at inequalities across the EU-27
Agnieszka Jakubowska
4. Air pollution and the cancer
Solmaz Gholami, Ali Behnami and Khaled Zoroufchi Benis
5. A Review of the Association of Air Pollution on Pregnant Health
Mehmet Turan Ayseli and Turgay Cetinkaya
6. A review of diseases attributed to air pollution and associated health issues: a case study of Indian metropolitan cities
Anupma Kumari, Saima Anjum and Mohammad Zafar
7. Association of Air Pollution on Blood Pressure and Hypertension
Suman Mishra and Naresh Kumar
8. A comprehensive review of the relationship between air pollution and type 2 diabetes
Samaneh Dehghani, Vahide Oskoei, Niloofar Borhani Yazdi, Samira Sheikhy Yousefabad, Arian Jafarian, Mohammad Rezvani Ghalhari and Samaneh Abolli
9. Air pollution and the skin diseases
Annisa Utami Rauf and Ari Prayogo Pribadi
10. A comprehensive review of the relationship between air pollution and cardiovascular disease
Parnia Bashardoust, Mohammad Rezvani Ghalhari, Danial Nayeri and Mohammad Hadi M. H. Dehghani
11. A review of economic burden and negative health impacts due to air pollution
Nishant Raj Kapoor, Ashok Kumar, Harish Chandra Arora, Anuj Kumar and Aman Kumar
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 2, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 314
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443160806
- eBook ISBN: 9780443160813
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Mohammad Hadi Dehghani
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Hadi Dehghani is a full professor at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. His scientific research interests include environmental science. He is the author of various research studies published in national and international journals and conference proceedings and head of several research projects at the TUMS. He has authored 20 books, 26 book chapters and more than 270 full papers published in peer-reviewed journals. He is an editorial board member, guest editor, and reviewer in many internal and international journals and a member of several international science committees worldwide. He is a supervisor and advisor for many PhD and MSc theses at the TUMS. He is currently also a member of the Iranian Association of Environmental Health and member of the Institute for Environmental Research at the TUMS.
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Rama Rao Karri
Dr. Rama Rao Karri is a professor (senior assistant) in the Faculty of Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Brunei. He has over 18 years of experience in academia, industry, and research. He has published 200+ research articles in reputed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings.
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Teresa Vera
Dr. Teresa Vera is a chemical researcher with the CEAM Foundation at the EUPHORE installation (European Photoreactor), one of the largest research facilities in Spain and Europe to study atmospheric chemical processes. She obtained her PhD from the Valencia University and has more than 25 years of experience in the area of atmospheric chemistry.
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Salwa Kamal Mohamed Hassan
Prof. Salwa Kamal Mohamed Hassan is a professor of air pollution chemistry in the Air Pollution Research Department at the Environment and Climate Change Research Institute, National Research Centre in Dokki, Giza, Egypt. Her main field of interest is air pollution monitoring and measurements, atmospheric photochemical reactions, the atmosphere's chemistry and chemical composition, and the study of pollutants in urban, industrial, and rural areas. She has about 30 years of experience in the area of atmospheric chemistry.