Yet another study looks at the health risks, especially for asthma in children, from proximity to emissions from ships and the trucks that support them.
Global Goods Movement and the Local Burden of Childhood Asthma in Southern California (1 page abstract)
Key Quotes:
“Approximately 1600 (9%) of all childhood asthma cases in Long Beach and 690 (6%) in Riverside were attributed to traffic proximity. Ship emissions accounted for 1400 (21%) bronchitis episodes and, in more modest proportions, health care visits for asthma”
“Both Long Beach and Riverside have heavy automobile traffic corridors as well as truck traffic and regional pollution originating in the Los Angeles–Long Beach port complex, the largest in the United States”
Additional commentaries:
Highway Pollution and its Devastating Impacts on Local Communities
Key Quotes:
“This is also one of the first studies to quantify the contribution of ship emissions to the childhood asthma burden”
“The traditional approach to estimating the burden of air pollution-related disease has markedly underestimated the true effect…Our results indicate that there is a substantial proportion of childhood asthma that may be caused by living within 75 meters (81 yards) of a major road in Long Beach and Riverside.”
Study finds big air pollution impacts on local communities
Key Quotes:
“Although there has been extensive research on the effects of traffic proximity on asthma risk, this study is one of the few that has estimated the number of cases—or “burden of disease”—associated with traffic in specific high risk communities, says principal investigator Rob McConnell”
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