Retrospective Study of Effects of Air Pollution on Human Health
Ogunbayo, Akindayo (2016)
Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu
2016
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http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201605239280
http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201605239280
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Environmental air pollution poses serious challenges to human health, the effects which are mostly seen as the respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases and cancers. Our health is closely related to our environment.
The aim of this study was to identify the air pollutants that are of health importance to humans and to find their negative impacts on human health, conduct retrospective studies to find out if there is a correlation between exposure to environmental air pollutants and hospital visits due to symptoms of respiratory diseases and to see if exposure to environmental air pollution has significant effects on hospital visits due to the symptoms of respiratory diseases.
Patients’ data were collected from respiratory and infectious disease Dr Victor Babes hospital, Timisoara, Romania. Hospital case files of 229 patients that presented at the hospital from 1st February 2016, till 22nd March 2016 were collected and analysed in accordance with rules of the ethical committee. The data collected includes hospital file number, sex, age, diagnosis, comorbidity, month of the last hospital visit, positive family history of the diseases, occupation, working in environment with toxic substances, exposure to toxic substances at workplace, smoking, years of smoking, and number of packets of cigarette per day.
The Pearson correlation coefficients of correlation between the exposures to environmental air pollutants against total hospital visit is 0.99 showing a strong correlation and also the P value of 0.004 (p<0.05) using two-tail shows that exposure to environmental air pollutant has a significant effect on the total hospital visits due to symptoms of illness at the confident interval of 95%.
The findings justify that exposure to air pollution has serious effects on human health especially in causing symptoms and diseases.
The aim of this study was to identify the air pollutants that are of health importance to humans and to find their negative impacts on human health, conduct retrospective studies to find out if there is a correlation between exposure to environmental air pollutants and hospital visits due to symptoms of respiratory diseases and to see if exposure to environmental air pollution has significant effects on hospital visits due to the symptoms of respiratory diseases.
Patients’ data were collected from respiratory and infectious disease Dr Victor Babes hospital, Timisoara, Romania. Hospital case files of 229 patients that presented at the hospital from 1st February 2016, till 22nd March 2016 were collected and analysed in accordance with rules of the ethical committee. The data collected includes hospital file number, sex, age, diagnosis, comorbidity, month of the last hospital visit, positive family history of the diseases, occupation, working in environment with toxic substances, exposure to toxic substances at workplace, smoking, years of smoking, and number of packets of cigarette per day.
The Pearson correlation coefficients of correlation between the exposures to environmental air pollutants against total hospital visit is 0.99 showing a strong correlation and also the P value of 0.004 (p<0.05) using two-tail shows that exposure to environmental air pollutant has a significant effect on the total hospital visits due to symptoms of illness at the confident interval of 95%.
The findings justify that exposure to air pollution has serious effects on human health especially in causing symptoms and diseases.