Web Resources

National Air Quality Health Index

Environment Canada - National Website for the Air Quality Health Index
http://www.airhealth.ca

 

Development of the Air Quality Health Index         

Health Canada - A Health-based National Air Quality Index
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/air/out-ext/air_quality_e.html     

Environment Canada - Canadian Air Quality Index
http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/caqi/index_e.cfm

Canadian Health-Air Quality Links

BC Lung Association: Air Quality Services
http://www.bc.lung.ca/

Health Canada: Smog, Wood Smoke and Traffic Emissions
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/iyh-vsv/environ/index_e.html  

Health Canada: Outdoor Air Quality - Health Effects     
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/air/out-ext/effe/index_e.html  

Health Canada: Smog Busters 
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-emt/pubs/air/smog_busters_depoleurs/index_e.html     

Health Canada: Health - Air Quality Publications
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/air/index_e.html

Environment Canada: Clean Air Online – Health, Environment and Economic
http://www.ec.gc.ca/cleanair-airpur/Home-WS8C3F7D55-1_En.htm

BC Provincial Health Officer
http://www.healthservices.gov.bc.ca/pho/pdf/phoannual2003.pdf

Toronto Public Health: Smog and Your Health
http://www.toronto.ca/health/smog/index.htm 

Ontario – Health and Smog
http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/envision/air/smog/health.htm 

Canadian Health Network: Visit: A to Z Index-air pollution
http://www.canadian-health-network.ca/

Other Health-Air Quality Links

UBC: Fires,Smoke, Air Quality Related Weather Trends for BC and Health Effects
http://www.firesmoke.ubc.ca/index.htm

Emory University – Pediatric Environmental Health
http://www.sph.emory.edu/PEHSU/html/exposures/outdoorair.htm

Children's Environmental Health Network – Health and Air Quality Links
http://www.cehn.org/cehn/resourceguide/airpollutants.html

Minnesota Dept. of Health – Health and Air Quality
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/air/pm.htm

US Environment Protection Agency: Air Quality Health Publications
http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=static.health

California Air Resources Board: Health and Air Quality
http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/health/health.htm

Northwest Environment Watch – Air Quality and Health Literature Review
http://cascadiascorecard.typepad.com/sprawl_and_health/air_quality_health/index.html

American Heart Association – Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/109/21/2655

GreenFacts – Health and the Environment
http://www.greenfacts.org/studies/index.htm