Physiological Determinants of Global Health

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 15.06.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Content Objectives
  4. Background Content
  5. Classroom Strategies and Student Activities
  6. Notes
  7. Bibliography
  8. Appendix A – Two-Line-Pair-Share
  9. Appendix B – Student Reading List for Electronic Cigarette Discussion and Debate
  10. Appendix C – Implementing District Standards

Every Breath You Take - Air Pollution’s Effects on Respiratory Health

Vanessa Vitug

Published September 2015

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Notes

  1. Dua-Kheti, The Satire of Trades
  2. Gaskell, North and South, 1854
  3. Kalra, Adiya
  4. Environmental Performance Index from Yale.edu
  5. http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/pm.html
  6. Ibid
  7. Burns, Jacob et al. Interventions to reduce ambient particulate matter air pollution and its effect on health.
  8. Kanervisto, Merja et al. Low socioeconomic status is associated with chronic obstructive airway diseases
  9. http://phe.rockefeller.edu/comm_risk/commrsk4.html
  10. http://www.ed-data.org/ , Accessed June 20, 2015
  11. So, 2014, Immigration and Migration: My family and my community
  12. lung.org, 63 Accessed June 20, 2015
  13. Next Generation Science Standards, Crosscutting relationships
  14. Newman, Overview of the Lungs
  15. nrdc.org – Accessed June 20, 2015, Air quality in California
  16. Ibid
  17. cdc.gov
  18. org
  19. Shier, Butler et. al, Hole’s Anatomy and Physiology, Chapter 16
  20. Ibid, 436
  21. Ibid, 438
  22. Saltzman, Mark – 297
  23. Ibid, 298
  24. Ibid, 298
  25. Robbins and Cotran, Chapter Lung, 679
  26. Lung capacity figure available from wiki-images
  27. WHO, “Household air pollution and health”
  28. Robbins and Cotran, Chapter Lung, 679
  29. Ibid
  30. Ibid
  31. Ibid
  32. Ibid
  33. John Hopkins’s Interactive Respiratory Physiology
  34. Ibid
  35. Robbins and Cotran, Chronic Diffue Interstitial
  36. Ibid, 476
  37. lung.org, 63 Accessed June 20, 2015
  38. Environmental Protection Agency, second hand smoke and electronic cigarette use AVID Strategy Writing in the Margins, http://www.smusd.org/cms/lib3/CA01000805/Centricity/Domain/1674/Annotating%20Text.pdf
  39. Callahan-Lyon, Electronic Cigarettes: Human Health Affects Biology Corner, “Measuring Lung Capacity”
  40. Czogala et al, “Secondhand Exposure to Vapors from Electronic Cigarettes”
  41. British Journal of General Practice, “E-cigarettes: Fact or Fiction

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