Source entry 1: Citation: Si Fan, et al. “A Study of Parents’ Perception of Air Pollution and Its Effect on Their Children’s Respiratory Health in Nanchang, China.” Journal of Environmental Health, vol. 79, no. 7, Mar. 2017, pp. E1–E9.

Summary: Based on my reading from this academic journal, the authors talked about how air pollution has a major effect on kids respiratory health in China. What they did was that they collected a lot of data and information from residents in China with respiratory conditions and the major cause of these conditions were very bad air quality which most children happened to have. What was interesting was that they found research on the bad air quality that was caused by construction dust, and vehicle exhaust emission, which caused “3.7 million premature deaths worldwide”. Also, since China’s economy is experiencing a rapid growth with more people including children, a lot of cities are experiencing this problem with increased pollutants. This caused many diseases for children such as asthma, allergies, bronchitis, coughing, etc. They also talked about that in the future, they should improve their air quality in China by using less cars and more public transportation so that there will be less gas and smoke roaming around in the air. 

Reflection: After reading this journal, everything seemed very interesting and I totally agree with the authors on what they’ve talked about where they should use less cars since they produce a lot of smoke and unhealthy air and how people should use more transportation. Quote from the text stated, “limiting their use of private cars in favor of using public transportation (buses) or personal bicycles more often.” One question I have based on what the text is saying is; Why are children more likely to get sick from the contaminated air than adults? What this document tells me about my research is that children are becoming ill from the bad air and the many ways to stop this from happening would be to stop spreading unhealthy bad air such as smoke so that it wouldn’t affect anyone. Based on the authors writing style, the tone of the authors were very informal and the choice of genre was an academic journal, which is very useful when doing scientific research on bad air quality. 

Quotations: Quotes I want to add from the article is, “The top three respiratory conditions associated with poor air quality among children were cough (90.5%), upper respiratory infection (72.9%), and bronchitis (47.2%).” Another quote is, “Parents believed motor vehicle emissions (95.9%), secondhand smoke (95.4%), and dust (92.9%) to be the risk factors largely responsible for respiratory illnesses among children. Furthermore, most respondents supported government intervention to improve air quality with several suggestions: controlling industrial pollution (69.9%), increasing public transportation and reducing private cars (51.0%), and controlling and reducing waste incineration (45.6%).” (Quoted from the abstract).