tailieunhanh - OUTDOOR AIR POLLUTION: ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL BURDEN OF DISEASE AT NATIONAL AND LOCAL LEVELS

The guidelines are targeted at public health professionals involved in prevent- ing health risks of environmental exposures as well as specialists and authorities involved in the design and use of buildings, indoor materials and products. The guidelines are based on the accumulated scientific knowledge available at the time of their development. They have the character of recommendations. Nev- ertheless, countries may wish to use the guidelines as a scientific basis for legally enforceable standards. The evidence review supporting the guidelines for each of the selected pollut- ants includes an evaluation of indoor sources, current indoor concentrations and their relationship with outdoor levels, as. | Environmental Burden of Disease Series No. 5 Outdoor air pollution Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels Bart Ostro Series Editors Annette Prũss-Ũstũn Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum Carlos Corvalán Alistair Woodward A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for calculating the estimates described in this document can be obtained from WHO PHE. E-mail contact EBDassessment@ World Health Organization Protection of the Human Environment Geneva 2004 WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Ostro Bart. Outdoor air pollution assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels Bart Ostro. Environmental burden of disease series series editors Annette Pruss-Ustun . et al. no. 5 pollution - adverse effects emissions - adverse effects fuels -adverse effects tract diseases - chemically induced diseases - chemically induced of illness studies assessment - methods Annette. . ISBN 92 4 159146 3 NLM classification WA 754 ISSN 1728-1652 Suggested Citation Ostro B. Outdoor air pollution Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels. Geneva World Health Organization 2004 WHO Environmental Burden of Disease Series No. 5 . World Health Organization 2004 All rights reserved. Publications of the World Health Organization can be obtained from Marketing and Dissemination World Health Organization 20 Avenue Appia 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland tel 41 22 791 2476 fax 4122 791 4857 email bookorders@ . Requests for permission to reproduce or translate WHO publications - whether for sale or for noncommercial distribution - should be addressed to Publications at the above address fax 41 22 791 4806 email permissions@ . The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World .