Impact of short weather changes on the population's health risk from ambient air pollution

Novikov, S.M.; Skvortsova, N.S.; Kislitsin, V.A.; Shashina, T.A.

Gigiena i Sanitariia 2007(5): 26-28

2007


ISSN/ISBN: 0016-9900
PMID: 18062012
Document Number: 607347
The paper considers the negative impact of weather changes in combination with the altered quality of ambient air on the economic and social spheres of society and on the population's health. It describes experience in assessing a possible damage to the health of the Moscow population from exposure to elevated concentrations of ambient air pollutants (suspended matter, nitrogen and sulfur dioxides, carbon oxide). The results of assessment simulation of dissemination of chemicals contained in the emission from the Moscow heat-and-power objects under poor weather conditions are presented.

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