4187.0: Tuesday, November 14, 2000: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | ||||
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| Air pollution episodes in the 1940's and 50's showed the hazards of smoke pollution. As a result, air pollution controls were enacted to control emissions of smoke from industry, power plants, automobiles, and domestic furnaces. While these controls were effective in reducing total loads of particulate air pollution, recent epidemiologic studies have reported increased deaths and morbidity associated with current exposures to particulate air pollution at levels well below the standards set to protect public health. Recent mechanistic studies are providing support for epidemiologic findings. These findings have stimulated a lively national debate on the adequacy of the scientific data used to set our air pollution standards, and the methods used for setting those standards. A task force was formed to identify the weaknesses in the scientific evidence and to develop a national research strategy to provide the information needed to make difficult decisions required to protect the public health in a timely and scientifically sound manner. This symposium will review the current state of that process | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives | ||||
| Allen Dearry, PhD | ||||
| Doug Dockery, PhD | ||||
| Fine Particulate Air Pollution: Smoke and Mirrors of the 90's or Hazard of the New Millenium? Douglas Dockery, PhD | ||||
| Forging a Research Agenda for Particulate Matter Jonathan Samet, MD | ||||
| Interface of Science with Policy Dan Greenbaum | ||||
| Mechanisms of Particulate Air Pollution Health Effects John Godleski, MD | ||||
| Sponsor: | Environment | |||
| Cosponsors: | Epidemiology | |||