AIr Pollution and Community Health

The impact of community air pollution on health is one of the most complicated health problems of the day. This is due partly to the extensive range of scientific disciplines needed to describe the essential elements of the problem, and partly to the interaction of subjective and objective effects in need of investigation. Not only are all the medical sciences and specialties required to describe the health effects of pollution, but meteorology, chemistry, physics, sociology, mathematics, psychology, and statistics are also involved. The conventional manner of organizing and reporting scientific research in professional societies and specialty journals has some disadvantages in an effective attack on the air pollution problem since the audience may be inappropriate. In places where the problem has been most urgent,ad hocmeetings and conferences have often been held. As with manyad hocmeetings, participants often leave with the satisfaction of knowing that information has