The Relationship Between Emission by Transportation and Public Health

Abstract

Nowadays climate change is a very popular topic for discussion, which is strongly connected to humans life. For example, the continuous temperature increase causes the increase death rate due to high temperature weather. The extreme weather like typhoon cause catastrophic disaster. The emission by transportations takes a large part of the global emission. It is one of the human activities which consume a large amount of energy and it is reasonable believed it is one of the factors that affect humans health condition. The pollutants emitted by transportations not only influence the possibility of getting diseases, but also affect the birth rate and mortality of human society, which even leads to a series of social problems. This article aims for discussing the relationship between emission by transportations and peoples health. The investigation takes asthma as an example of disease and reasearching the relationship between the prevalence of astham, death rate and the emission by transportations in Europe. The result for the investigation discovered as the decline of pollutants emitted by transportations, the prevalence of asthma which caused by pollutants are significantly decreasing in EU in a period of time due to the introduction of government policy in EU. However, the death rate of asthma is not significantly influenced by the emission of transportations.