Health effects from air pollution have been repeatedly found by researchers over the past decades. While the catastrophic episodes of air pollution that were experienced in the 1950s and 1960s have been eliminated, recent studies have documented serious adverse health effects from air pollution, even at today’s dramatically reduced levels of pollutants. In California, the major pollutants associated with adverse health effects are ground-level ozone, fine particulate matter, and toxic air pollutants. |
Air Toxics Studies
Learn how toxic air pollution can cause serious or irreversible chronic or acute health effects in humans, such as cancer.
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Asthma & Outdoor
Air Quality Consortium
This special group of researchers is working to better understand the relation between air pollution and asthma.
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Brain & Lung Tumor & Air
Pollution Foundation
Read the results of AQMD funded brain and lung cancer research.
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Health Effects of Air Pollution on Children
Research paper by Michael T. Kleinman, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine.
This is the children's health study mentioned in the
above video.
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