Food Safety; Pests and Vectors; Air Quality
Air pollution is an environmental health problem in many cities throughout the world. Residents in an urban community through which a major freeway transportation route runs are suffering from a number of health effects. You are involved in planning and implementing a program that will address reduction in exposure of the community, particularly young children in an elementary school, to air pollution and thereby reduce the impact of air pollution on the children.

Write a 2-3 page paper in which you do the following:
1.Describe the common health problems associated with indoor and outdoor air pollution taht result from vehicle emissions near major roadways in urban settings.
2.Describe why children are more vulnerable to the effects of these air pollutants.
3. Describe how you, as a public health professional, would plan and implement a program that will reduce the exposure of this elementary school community to air pollution as well as reduce the impact of air pollution on the health of children. In your response, make sure to include preventive steps that can be taken by the community to reduce the exposure of children to air pollutants.

Please be sure to support your opinion with evidence from the literature below. You will have to copy and paste the web address to your browser to review the required material.

Required Readings

Altekruse S.F., Cohen M.L. and Swerdlow D.L. (2007). Emerging Foodborne Diseases. Emerging Infectious Diseases 3(3): 285-293. Retrieved April 1, 2014, from http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/3/3/97-0304_article.htm

California Air Resources Board (n.d.). The Know Zone: What is Air Pollution? Retrieved April 1, 2014, from http://www.arb.ca.gov/knowzone/students/airpollu/airpolpage/whatis.htm

California Environmental Protection Agency, Air Resources Board (2010.). The Children’s Health Study. Retrieved April 1, 2014, from http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/chs/chs.htm

California Department of Public Health (2013). West Nile Virus FAQs and Basics: Mosquito Control. Retrieved April 1, 2014, from http://www.westnile.ca.gov/wnv_faqs_basics.php?id=25

Ritz B. and Wilhelm M. (2008). Southern California Environmental Report Card: Air Pollution Impacts on Infants and Children. UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Retrieved April 1, 2014, from http://www.environment.ucla.edu/reportcard/article.asp?parentid=1700

United States Department of Agriculture Food and Inspection Service (2013). Fact Sheets. Retrieved April 1, 2014, from http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/index.asp