Asthma And Air Pollution: Content Analysis

For this assignment, I choose to research on the topic of air pollution. It is a fairly broad topic because there are many subcategories within it but the main idea is that it is an environmental health issue that we encounter on a daily basis through various power plants and even from something as simple as exhaust extruding from vehicles. The issue of air pollution is something that is constantly changing and evolving but is not something that we have a concrete solution to. However, because we as living beings depend on the air in order to survive, the pollution of what if playing an effect on our breathing is something that we should be aware of in order to understand what is potentially causing several diseases such as asthma and other respiratory illnesses. I hope that by determining what …show more content…
All of the information it contains talks about basic info on indoor and outdoor pollution that could be learned from anywhere. On another note, the Natural Resources Defense Council gives more detailed information than the WHO and successfully answers everything that the title “Asthma and Air Pollution” could possible want to know. However, because it centers on mainly asthma, it makes it seem as if asthma is the only health issue that air pollution can cause, which is not true. As a result, as overall sources for research, these articles would not be good to use as they only inform on the bare minimum of the issue.
However, there was one informative source among the three: the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. This information would be a good source to include in a research paper because it not only explained the issue of air pollution but it also explained how we can reduce our exposure to air pollution and also what the NIEHS is doing to put a stop to air pollution.