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Ways to Prevent Health Dangers

Personal exposure to the air pollution can be reduced by staying indoors on days with levels of high air pollution. Air quality can be checked by using scales that mention moderate, unhealthy, or hazardous air quality conditions. Other ways to avoid the air pollution would be reducing outdoor air infiltration to indoors, cleaning indoor air with air filters, and limiting physical exertion, especially outdoors and near air pollution sources.  Avoiding exposure to air pollutants is especially important for susceptible individuals with chronic cardiovascular or pulmonary disease, children, and the elderly. There are also pharmaceutical or chemopreventive interventions such as antioxidants. Many health threats from poor air quality can cause cancer, avoiding the air pollution and taking antioxidants will help improve the health of those who are most affected by poor air quality.

Asthma Friendly Outdoor for Children

The specific purpose of the Asthma-Friendly Outdoor (Ambient) Air Quality Flag Program was to establish an education and communication tool for Central California communities that would accomplish two things: (1) Establish permanent local policy change to existing operating procedures in school districts and schools to help reduce the exposure of students, teachers, staff, and nearby communities to outdoor environmental asthma triggers and (2) provide education on air quality and potential health effects of exposure to air pollutants.  Science-based, simple, visual, low-cost school-based educational interventions to help reduce human exposure to outdoor environmental asthma triggers (i.e., ozone, particles, and pollens) can work in socioeconomically and ethnically diverse urban and rural or agricultural communities, and (2) local health and environmental justice groups such as asthma coalitions can successfully lead school-based environmental interventions to help improve children's quality of life. Programs like these are important for sensitive children who can experience dangers situations in health conditions due to air pollution or poor air quality. It is important for certain kids who are most sensitive to these negative effects of air pollution to be involved in programs like the Asthma Friendly Outdoor program.

San Joaquin Valley Air Quality

The San Joaquin Valley of California has poor air quality and high rates of asthma. Surveys were collected from 744 residents of the San Joaquin Valley from November 2014 to January 2015 to examine the public's views about air quality.  This data collected showed that the participants exposed to a certain extent of poor air quality showed that the air pollution in the Central Valley was one of the worst. The air quality is calculated to be either moderate or unhealthy, especially for sensitive groups. Some of these sensitive groups can include children, females, immigrants, or people with a weak immune system.