Health risks of ozone from long-range transboundary air pollution /

Ozone is a highly oxidative compound formed in the lower atmosphere (from gases originating to a large extent from anthropogenic sources) by photochemistry driven by solar radiation. Owing to its highly reactive chemical properties, ozone is harmful to vegetation, materials and human health. In the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
Otros Autores: Amann, Markus
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Copenhagen : World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, ©2008.
Temas:
Atmospheric ozone > Physiological effect > Europe.
Air > Pollution > Physiological effect > Europe.
Environmental monitoring.
Risk assessment.
Ozone > adverse effects
Air Pollution > adverse effects
Environmental Monitoring
Environmental Exposure > adverse effects
Risk Assessment
Ozone atmosphérique > Effets physiologiques > Europe.
Air > Pollution > Effets physiologiques > Europe.
Environnement > Surveillance.
Évaluation du risque.
risk assessment.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > Pollution Control.
Risk assessment
Environmental monitoring
Air > Pollution > Physiological effect
Atmospheric ozone > Physiological effect
Europe
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Executive summary
  • 1. Introduction
  • Structure of the report
  • 2. Hazard assessment of ozone
  • Ozone toxicokinetics
  • Acute responses
  • Chronic effects in humans
  • Thresholds
  • Susceptible groups
  • Health implications
  • 3. Sources of ozone precursors
  • Ozone formation and atmospheric transport
  • Sources of ozone precursor emissions
  • Projections of future emissions of ozone precursors
  • Interactions of ozone precursor emissions with other environmental problems
  • 4. Ozone levels
  • Monitoring results
  • Observed ozone trends
  • Modelling techniques and validation
  • Ozone and climate change
  • 5. Population exposure projections
  • Exposure versus ambient measurements
  • Population exposure modelling
  • 6. Risk estimates
  • Effects of ozone on mortality
  • Estimation of impacts on morbidity
  • Health effects and cost8211;benefit analysis
  • Transferability between populations
  • Evidence on reversibility of the health impacts
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Ozone air pollution is a significant health hazard in Europe
  • Health effects of long-range transboundary ozone are most likely proportional to the contribution of long-range sources to ozone exposure levels
  • Current policies lead to only a small reduction in risk
  • Key uncertainties, research needs and policy implications
  • References
  • Annex 1. List of Working Group members and reviewers.

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