HEALTH AND THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT: HEALTH PROFILES VERSUS ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS

Journal/Book: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH VOI. 56 NO. 2 February 1966. 1964/1966;

Abstract: James R. McCarroll M.D. F.A.P.H.A.; Eric J. Cassell M.D.; William T. lngram M.P.H.; and Doris Wolter R.N. M.P.H. The authors are with the Division of Epidemiologic Research Department of Public Health Cornell University Medical College New York N. Y. This paper was presented before the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association at the Ninety-Second Annual Meeting in New York N. Y. October 7 1964. This study was supported by RG AP00266 the Division of Air Pollution Bureau of State Services USPHS and by RG 1155 from the Health Research Council of the City of New York. Summary We can say that the Cornell studies have demonstrated a severe and continuing air pollution problem in New York City. The effects of this pollution an the health of the average city dweller are subtle and often masked by symptoms stemming from other causes. Nevertheless careful analysis of variations in health of a sizable population followed forward in time may discriminate between these different etiologic factors. Subjecting such repetitive observations to the types of discriminating analysis now being developed may permit identification of many unsuspected health effects of atmospheric pollution.

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