LECTURE NOTES
For Environmental Health Science Students
Air Pollution
Mengesha Admassu,
Mamo Wubeshet
University of Gondar
In collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter Center,
the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education
August 2006
, Funded under USAID Cooperative Agreement No. 663-A-00-00-0358-00.
Produced in collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter
Center, the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education.
Important Guidelines for Printing and Photocopying
Limited permission is granted free of charge to print or photocopy all pages of this
publication for educational, not-for-profit use by health care workers, students or
faculty. All copies must retain all author credits and copyright notices included in the
original document. Under no circumstances is it permissible to sell or distribute on a
commercial basis, or to claim authorship of, copies of material reproduced from this
publication.
©2005 by Mengesha Admassu, Mamo Wubeshet
All rights reserved. Except as expressly provided above, no part of this publication may
be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,
including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system,
without written permission of the author or authors.
This material is intended for educational use only by practicing health care workers or
students and faculty in a health care field.
,PREFACE
Shortage of appropriate textbooks that could meet the need
for training professionals on the nature and the magnitude of
ambient and indoor air pollutions and their effects have been
one of the outstanding problems in the existing higher health
learning institutions in Ethiopia. Therefore, a well-developed
teaching material to produce the required qualified health
professionals, who are considered to shoulder the
responsibility of preventing and controlling of air pollutions by
creating awareness and entertaining some interventional
measures among the communities, is obvious.
The present lecture note on “Air pollution” is therefore,
prepared to be used as a teaching material to train mainly
environmental health and other students of health category in
Ethiopia. It is believed this teaching material plays a
significant role to solve the critical shortage of reference
books and text on the subject. The lecture note is designed to
make the training somehow a practical application to the
actual indoor and out door air pollutions in the country. It
contains five chapters in which the major current out/ in-door
air pollution problems with their suggested solutions are
discussed. Each chapter is presented in simple language and
is provided with learning objectives, body introduction,
exercises, and suggested reading as appropriate. Text books,
i
, journals, internet sources and other lecture manuscript are
used to develop this lecture material.
We have also incorporated the useful ideas of different
instructors of the course to standardize it to its present status,
which the authors hope to further improve the draft through
the consultations, pretest and revisions. It is also hoped that
this lecture note will be of particular use not only for students
of health category in colleges and universities, but to those
graduates working in health care service institutions and
environmental protection agencies.
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For Environmental Health Science Students
Air Pollution
Mengesha Admassu,
Mamo Wubeshet
University of Gondar
In collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter Center,
the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education
August 2006
, Funded under USAID Cooperative Agreement No. 663-A-00-00-0358-00.
Produced in collaboration with the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative, The Carter
Center, the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, and the Ethiopia Ministry of Education.
Important Guidelines for Printing and Photocopying
Limited permission is granted free of charge to print or photocopy all pages of this
publication for educational, not-for-profit use by health care workers, students or
faculty. All copies must retain all author credits and copyright notices included in the
original document. Under no circumstances is it permissible to sell or distribute on a
commercial basis, or to claim authorship of, copies of material reproduced from this
publication.
©2005 by Mengesha Admassu, Mamo Wubeshet
All rights reserved. Except as expressly provided above, no part of this publication may
be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,
including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system,
without written permission of the author or authors.
This material is intended for educational use only by practicing health care workers or
students and faculty in a health care field.
,PREFACE
Shortage of appropriate textbooks that could meet the need
for training professionals on the nature and the magnitude of
ambient and indoor air pollutions and their effects have been
one of the outstanding problems in the existing higher health
learning institutions in Ethiopia. Therefore, a well-developed
teaching material to produce the required qualified health
professionals, who are considered to shoulder the
responsibility of preventing and controlling of air pollutions by
creating awareness and entertaining some interventional
measures among the communities, is obvious.
The present lecture note on “Air pollution” is therefore,
prepared to be used as a teaching material to train mainly
environmental health and other students of health category in
Ethiopia. It is believed this teaching material plays a
significant role to solve the critical shortage of reference
books and text on the subject. The lecture note is designed to
make the training somehow a practical application to the
actual indoor and out door air pollutions in the country. It
contains five chapters in which the major current out/ in-door
air pollution problems with their suggested solutions are
discussed. Each chapter is presented in simple language and
is provided with learning objectives, body introduction,
exercises, and suggested reading as appropriate. Text books,
i
, journals, internet sources and other lecture manuscript are
used to develop this lecture material.
We have also incorporated the useful ideas of different
instructors of the course to standardize it to its present status,
which the authors hope to further improve the draft through
the consultations, pretest and revisions. It is also hoped that
this lecture note will be of particular use not only for students
of health category in colleges and universities, but to those
graduates working in health care service institutions and
environmental protection agencies.
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