Publications by authors named "Ernie P Weijers"
Background: Air pollution has been associated with respiratory health effects. There is little direct evidence that reductions in air pollution related to abatement policies lead to actual improvement in respiratory health. We assessed whether a reduction in (traffic policy-related) air pollution concentrations was associated with changes in respiratory health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Evaluations of the effectiveness of air pollution policy interventions are scarce. This study investigated air pollution at street level before and after implementation of local traffic policies including low emission zones (LEZ) directed at heavy duty vehicles (trucks) in five Dutch cities.
Methods: Measurements of PM(10), PM(2.
Article Synopsis
- Scientists studied tiny pieces of dust in the air, called particulate matter (PM), to see how harmful they can be to health.
- They found that PM from busy city streets was way more harmful than PM from quieter areas, being up to 6.5 times worse!
- The research showed that certain metals and soot in the dust were linked to higher levels of harmful effects from PM.