The Quintero - Puchuncaví Case

Lessons on the Effect of Air Pollution on Health

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  • Ramiro de Elejalde Facultad de Economía y Negocios , Alberto Hurtado University image/svg+xml

    DOI:

    https://doi.org/10.11565/oe.vi167.449

    Keywords:

    Quintero - Puchuncaví, CODELCO, Pollution in Chile

    Abstract

    At 12:00 a.m. on Monday, June 6, the Quintero monitoring station recorded a copper dioxide (SO2) concentration of 1,326 micrograms per cubic meter (μg/m3), four times the maximum used to declare an environmental emergency. Even though the government did declare one and classes were suspended in the municipalities of Quintero and Puchuncaví, 75 people were treated at health care facilities in those municipalities with symptoms of poisoning. Over the following weeks, several hundred people also living in these municipalities would present similar symptoms. Continue reading...

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    Published

    2022-06-01

    Issue

    No. 167 (2022)

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    The Quintero - Puchuncaví Case: Lessons on the Effect of Air Pollution on Health. (2022). Observatorio Económico, 167, 2-4. https://doi.org/10.11565/oe.vi167.449

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