Air Pollution and Human Health

Upon competition of a ten year research project which analyzes the effect of air pollution and death rates in US cities, Lester B. Lave and Eugene P. Seskin conclude that the mortality rate in the US could shrink by seven percent with a similar if not greater decline in disease incidence if industries followed EPA regulations in cutting back on certain pollutant emissions. The authors claim that this reduction is sufficient to add one year to average life expectancy. Originally published in 1977.

Autorentext

Lester B. Lave, Eugene P. Seskin

Zusammenfassung
The Philippines is the world's largest exporter of temporary contract labor with a huge 800,000 workers a year being deployed on either six month or two year contracts. This labor migration is highly regulated by the government, private, and non-governmental/non-private organizations. Tyner argues that migrants are socially constructed, or 'made' by these parties and that migrants in turn become political resources. Employing a post-structural feminist perspective Tyner questions the very ontology of migration.

Inhalt

I: Background and theoretical framework; 1: Introduction; 2: Theory and method; II: Cross-sectional analysis of U.S. SMSAs, 1960, 1961, and 1969; 3: Total U.S. mortality, 1960 and 1961; 4: Disaggregated mortality rates, 1960 and 1961; 5: Effects of occupation mix, climate, and home-heating characteristics, 1960; 6: Suicides, venereal disease, and crime rates, 1960 and 1961; 7: 1969 Replication, further verification, and summary; III: Annual and daily time-series analyses; 8: Cross-sectional time-series analysis, 1960-69; 9: The relationship between daily mortality and daily air pollution; IV: Policy implications; 10: The benefits and costs of air pollution abatement; 11: Summary and conclusion