Air Pollution Impacts on Children: Why Young Children are More Susceptible to Air Pollution’s Effects?

authors:

avatar Nursan Cinar 1 , * , avatar Cemile Dede 2

Sakarya University, School of Health Sciences, Esentepe Campos, Sakarya, Turkey
Vocational School of Health Sciences, Sakarya University, Esentepe Campos, Sakarya, Turkey
Health Scope: Vol.1, issue 3; e93534
published online: November 20, 2012
article type: Letter
received: May 13, 2019
accepted: June 11, 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17795/jhealthscope-6637

how to cite: Cinar N, Dede C. Air Pollution Impacts on Children: Why Young Children are More Susceptible to Air Pollution’s Effects?. Health Scope. 2012;1(3):e93534. https://doi.org/10.17795/jhealthscope-6637.

Abstract

Health-threatening levels of air pollution are one of the most important problems of our century. Children are one of the easiest affected group from environmental deterioration and detrimental factors. Because they have biological and behavioral differences that the reason they are more affected on environmental factors (1).

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