In 1992, the Children’s Health Study, a longitudinal study started with the effects of pollution on the health of children in Southern California. The study collected data on the health of children and monitor their exposure to pollution, including a number of other environmental factors on an annual basis in high school air. The final report of the Children’s Health Study is the collection of more than ten years of collecting data on children’s health and the factors of pollution. In particular the community of pollution measures and assessed the data collected in large cross contamination and specific dates of children involved.Lung development, lung function, frequency of asthma and bronchitis, and acute respiratory diseases was followed and monitored all referrals.
The ARB is responsible for setting air quality standards for the protection of California’s residents, especially those with sensitivity to air pollution, the results of this study is particularly important since the results directly into the quality ‘air of California are included . A special factor was the level of the four main groups of pollutants:
- Ozone
- nitrogen
- Acid Rain (acid vapor)
- particulate matter (he breathed deep into the lungs)
Pollution monitoring is also screening children who are tested each spring. Moreover, an annual questionnaire for each child living with breathing problems and symptoms, the incidence of cough, bronchitis, asthma and other respiratory diseases, together with the levels of perception treaties in good time outdoors, and other factors such as frequency of smoking among children at home, the presence of fungi or animals (all factors known to the rate of respiratory infection in children influence), the quintessence of the study -. Air pollution and damage to the lungs of children, the last for life. She also had children that the current level of pollution and reduced lung function growth exposed to higher levels of pollution.
