Linking Air Quality and Health

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30th September 2022

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What is air quality?

Air quality is a measure of how clean or polluted the air is. Polluted air can be bad for our health and the environment we live in. For example, toxic particles can go into our lungs and blood putting us at risk of having a disease.

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How can doctors use air quality information for our health?

Doctors can link air quality information from our environment with health events (such as chest infection or heart attack) to study the origin of the problems.

But linking the information can be difficult. That is why, computer scientists help doctors by making the connections easy for them.

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Let's try to be a computer scientist!

Answer from the doctor

Thanks for your help! I will follow the case closely, but the number of health events linked is not enough to reach a conclusion.

Can you link

3

more health events with different people for me?

Link more health events

Thanks for your help!

First, I will put the health events you linked for me in order.

Second, I will try to find other people with similar health events.

Third, I will study if there is a common pattern that would reveal the unknown cause of the health event.

Knowing the cause would lead to better treatment and advice to improve our quality of life.