Community Health and Airport Operations-Related Noise and Air Pollution May, 10 2023

c) UW School of Public Health Study on UFP d) Recommendations to address health issues Presenter Notes Presentation Notes This study conducted in 2020 was state funded. Thank you to Senator Keiser and Representative Orwall for sponsoring the work. The Public Health study was a proviso (condition in an agreement) in Washington state’s House Bill 1109 which requests that Public Health – Seattle & King County produce Airport community health profiles for a one-mile, a five-mile, and a 10-mile radius of the airport Comprehensive literature review assessing the strength-of-evidence for health effects of airport operations Summary of findings of the University of Washington School of Public Health study on ultrafine particulate matter Recommendations to address health issues related to the impact of the airport on the community. The results we share with you are descriptive only – it is not possible to causally link the adverse health conditions we’ll discuss to airport-related pollutants. The radii of one mile outside of airport, 1-5 miles and 5-10 miles are based on methods from prior studies of airport pollutants. I’m going to refer to these as ‘airport communities’ hereafter. For example, see: Hudda N, Gould T, Hartin K, Larson TV, Fruin SA. Emissions from an international airport increase particle number concentrations 4-fold at 10 km downwind. Environ Sci Technol. 2014 Jun 17;48(12):6628-35. doi: 10.1021/es5001566. Epub 2014 May 29. PMID: 24871496; PMCID: PMC4215878. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24871496/ See the full PHSKC report: https://apps.leg.wa.gov/ReportsToTheLegislature/Home/GetPDF?fileName=Community%20Health%20and%20Airport%20Operations%20Related%20Pollution%20Report_c7389ae6-f956-40ef-98a7-f85a4fab1c59.pdf The airport communities are home to a majority of King County’s people of color…

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