出版社：Thai Society of Higher Eduction Institutes on Environment
摘要：The urban region with high traffic volume and high density developments contributed to thedecreasing of air quality. Air pollution is a major environmental risk to health and exposure toambient air pollution has been associated with a series of adverse health effects including respiratorysystem. Previous scholars found a significant link between respiratory disease and air pollution.However, due to the limited study in the regional context, this study is needed to find therelationship between air quality and human health in the regional context, especially in Malaysia.As proven that distribution of air pollutants are influenced by the effects of wind and geographicalfactors (Sham, 1998). Therefore, air quality study should not focus on urban boundary only. TheAir Pollution Index (API) data was obtained through a secondary source. For the health indicationwith the focuses on respiratory infections, a house to house questionnaire survey had been carriedout. The self-reported health data (through questionnaire survey) was correlated to the air qualitydata (API). The research found that Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) incidence was not clearlyrelated to the air quality. However, the significant relationship between exposure to air pollutionand respiratory health (ARI incidence) was established for 2 out of 5 study areas in SelangorState. Besides, respondents’ perception of ‘sense of clean air’ was significantly correlated to ARI cases. It showed a relationship between air pollution exposure and environmental perception with respiratory health.
关键词：air quality; air-related health; environmental health; respiratory; urban region
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