An Exposure Appraisal of Outdoor Air Pollution on the Respiratory Well-being of a Developing City Population
Zaria is the educational hub of northern Nigeria. It is a developing city with a pollution level high enough to be ranked amongst the World Health Organization’s (WHO) most polluted cities. The study appraised the influence of outdoor air pollution on the respiratory well-being of a population in a...
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| description | Zaria is the educational hub of northern Nigeria. It is a developing city with a pollution level high enough to be ranked amongst the World Health Organization’s (WHO) most polluted cities. The study appraised the influence of outdoor air pollution on the respiratory well-being of a population in a limited resource environment. With the approved ethics, the techniques utilized were: portable pollutant monitors, respiratory health records, WHO AirQ+ software, and the American Thoracic Society (ATS) questionnaire. They were utilized to acquire day-time weighted outdoor pollution levels, health respiratory cases, assumed baseline incidence (BI), and exposure respiratory symptoms among selected study participants respectively. The study revealed an average respiratory illness incidence rate of 607 per 100,000 cases. Findings showed that an average of 2648 cases could have been avoided if the theoretical WHO threshold limit for the particulate matter with diameter of <2.5/10 micron (PM2.5/PM10) were adhered to. Using the questionnaire survey, phlegm was identified as the predominant respiratory symptom. A regression analysis showed that the criteria pollutant PM2.5, was the most predominant cause of respiratory symptoms among interviewed respondents. The study logistics revealed that outdoor pollution is significantly associated with respiratory well-being of the study population in Zaria, Nigeria. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4583177c485743efa5363338529fb5342022-12-22T03:01:57ZengSpringerJournal of Epidemiology and Global Health2210-60062018-12-018110.2991/j.jegh.2018.04.002An Exposure Appraisal of Outdoor Air Pollution on the Respiratory Well-being of a Developing City PopulationYahaya A. AliyuJoel O. BotaiZaria is the educational hub of northern Nigeria. It is a developing city with a pollution level high enough to be ranked amongst the World Health Organization’s (WHO) most polluted cities. The study appraised the influence of outdoor air pollution on the respiratory well-being of a population in a limited resource environment. With the approved ethics, the techniques utilized were: portable pollutant monitors, respiratory health records, WHO AirQ+ software, and the American Thoracic Society (ATS) questionnaire. They were utilized to acquire day-time weighted outdoor pollution levels, health respiratory cases, assumed baseline incidence (BI), and exposure respiratory symptoms among selected study participants respectively. The study revealed an average respiratory illness incidence rate of 607 per 100,000 cases. Findings showed that an average of 2648 cases could have been avoided if the theoretical WHO threshold limit for the particulate matter with diameter of <2.5/10 micron (PM2.5/PM10) were adhered to. Using the questionnaire survey, phlegm was identified as the predominant respiratory symptom. A regression analysis showed that the criteria pollutant PM2.5, was the most predominant cause of respiratory symptoms among interviewed respondents. The study logistics revealed that outdoor pollution is significantly associated with respiratory well-being of the study population in Zaria, Nigeria.https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125905570/viewAir pollutionrespiratory healthZaria |
| spellingShingle | Yahaya A. Aliyu Joel O. Botai An Exposure Appraisal of Outdoor Air Pollution on the Respiratory Well-being of a Developing City Population Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health Air pollution respiratory health Zaria |
| title | An Exposure Appraisal of Outdoor Air Pollution on the Respiratory Well-being of a Developing City Population |
| title_full | An Exposure Appraisal of Outdoor Air Pollution on the Respiratory Well-being of a Developing City Population |
| title_fullStr | An Exposure Appraisal of Outdoor Air Pollution on the Respiratory Well-being of a Developing City Population |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Exposure Appraisal of Outdoor Air Pollution on the Respiratory Well-being of a Developing City Population |
| title_short | An Exposure Appraisal of Outdoor Air Pollution on the Respiratory Well-being of a Developing City Population |
| title_sort | exposure appraisal of outdoor air pollution on the respiratory well being of a developing city population |
| topic | Air pollution respiratory health Zaria |
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