Asthma Rate and Costs from Traffic Pollution Higher: Much Higher Than Past Traditional Risk Assessments Have Indicated

Asthma Rate and Costs from Traffic Pollution Higher: Much Higher Than Past Traditional Risk Assessments Have Indicated

Reference- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120125202759.htm

Summary- A research team led by University of Massachusetts Amherst resource economist Sylvia Brandt have revised the cost burden sharply upward for childhood asthma and for the first time include the number of cases attributable to air pollution. The total cost of asthma due to pollution is much higher than the past traditional risk assessments have indicated and there is growing evidence that exposure to traffic related air pollution is the cause of asthma and a trigger for an attack. Total addition asthma specific cost there due to traffic related pollution is $18 million per year. Almost half of it is due to new asthma cases caused by pollutions.

Critique- With the prices so high it will be hard for people with their money going out. The air pollution and the traffic pollution is probably the cause of asthma that starts the attack.

Impact- With the traffic pollution around it is just greater for people having a asthma attack.