Impacts of port and locomotive-related air pollution on respiratory symptoms within vulnerable communities in Southern California.

Jason G Su¹, Vy Vuong², Eahsan Shahriary³, John Jacobsen⁴, John Balmes⁵, Meredith Barrett²

¹School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States. Electronic address: jasonsu@berkeley.edu.

²Propeller Health, 505 Montgomery St #2300, San Francisco, CA 94111, United States; ResMed, San Diego, CA 92123, United States.

³School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.

⁴Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.

⁵School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States.

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Abstract

The increasing operations of port craft and railway locomotives pose significant environmental and health challenges to vulnerable communities in California, where disadvantaged populations often bear a disproportionate burden of pollution exposure. This study employs digital inhaler sensors to monitor individual respiratory health and quantify the impacts of air pollution from port craft and rail…

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