Air Quality and Environmental Health

 

Four questions need to be answered please, you will need to open the weblinks and view the youtube video. Please view the information below for references. APA format and 175 or more words.

 

The EPA has identified six pollutants as "criteria" air pollutants because it regulates them by developing human health-based and/or environmentally-based criteria for setting permissible levels. These six pollutants are carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen oxides, ground-level ozone, particle pollution (often referred to as particulate matter), and sulfur oxides.

Visit: https://airnow.gov/ and get your AQI forecast for today (type in your zip code and state at the top of the page). You can even sign up for EnviroFlash (www.enviroflash.info), a free service that will alert you via e-mail when air quality is forecast to be a concern in your area.

Answer the following questions in your initial post:

1. What is the AQI?
2. How is a community's AQI calculated and reported?
3. Watch the following video about air pollution in Utah Valley. Air Pollution - esl-lab.com. Accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtVLTWycl8o&feature=youtu.be August 23, 2016.

 

In recent years, Utah Valley has had an air pollution level higher than its more heavily populated neighbor Salt Lake County. Warnock, C. (2014). Why is Provo air pollution so much worse than Salt Lake? Daily Herald. Accessed at http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/central/provo/why-is-provo-air-pollution-so-much-worse-than-salt/article_a244b325-13b6-5dec-93a8-4b961bad11cb.html on August 23, 2016.

4. What other factors besides population density could be at play?

 

Please use references below

 

What Is Environmental Health?

Our environment is made up of many complex interactions of physical and social factors that influence our overall health. Think back to Module 1 and reflect again on the idea of a "social-ecological model" of health, which examines all the levels of influence in our environment that can be addressed to support long-term, healthful lifestyles. Because environmental health encompasses the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the soil upon which we live, environmental health is integral to the health of society. 

In our everyday lives, we are exposed to many potentially harmful pollutants and chemicals in our environment. Environmental Health scientists often study the links between exposure to harmful compounds and human health outcomes. Read the following articles and consider the relationships between:

Air quality and asthma

Asthma. (2016). EPA. Accessed at http://www.epa.gov/asthma/triggers.html, 2016.

State of the Air. (2016). American Lung Association. Accessed at http://www.lung.org/our-initiatives/healthy-air/sota/ on August 23, 2016

Carcinogens and cancer

Known and Probable Human Carcinogens (2014). American Cancer Society. Acccessed at http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/generalinformationaboutcarcinogens/known-and-probable-human-carcinogens, 2016.

 

Air Pollution - esl-lab.com. Accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtVLTWycl8o&feature=youtu.be August 23, 2016.

Warnock, C. (2014). Why is Provo air pollution so much worse than Salt Lake? Daily Herald. Accessed at http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/central/provo/why-is-provo-air-pollution-so-much-worse-than-salt/article_a244b325-13b6-5dec-93a8-4b961bad11cb.html on August 23, 2016.

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