- Title
- Impact of ambient air pollution on human health health in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
- Creator
- Nodwele, Mzoxolo Patrick
- Creator
- Strumpher, J
- Subject
- Environmental health -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Air -- Pollution -- Meteorological aspects -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Doctoral
- Type
- DTech
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20142
- Identifier
- vital:29134
- Description
- The aim of this study was to assess whether ambient-air pollution contributed negatively to ambient-air quality, and subsequently to human health in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (the study area). A research design that is descriptive and explorative in nature was followed. The research methodology conformed to the following procedure. Firstly, an emission inventory of one hundred and fifty (150) emission sources listed on the data base of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality was compiled (“N” and “n” = 150) in a quantitative research approach. Emission data from these sources, together with the relevant meteorological data from the weather stations in the study area (“N” and “n” = 5) were collected and used as input into a geographical information system-software program to quantify the contribution of each emission source to ambient air pollution. The said software program was also used to simulate the dispersion of emissions over the study area. The emission inventory was compiled in consultation with a focus group of experts in the field of air-pollution control in a qualitative-research approach. Secondly, health records of the patients who attend the clinics in the said municipality (“N” and “n” = 49) were assessed for air pollution-related health outcomes. Nineteen (19) of the forty-nine (49) clinics were situated in Sub-District A; fifteen (15) clinics were situated in Sub-District B. The last fifteen of the clinics were situated in Sub-District C, which was also the least-industrialised sub-district. Sub-districts A and B were found to be the most industrialised of the three Sub-districts. Air pollution related health statistics were compiled for the following air-pollution-related health outcomes, namely: lower respiratory tract infections in children under five (5) years of age, as well as pneumonia and asthma in the general population.
- Format
- xx, 285 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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