By Anthony J Hedley, Sarah M McGhee, Chit Ming Wong, Bill Barron, Patsy Chau, June Chau, Thuan Q Thach, Tze Wai Wong, Christine Loh
10 June 2006

Air pollution is now regarded as one of the highest priorities in environmental protection in both developed and developing economies world-wide. The main driver of policy decision-making is the need to reduce the avoidable cardiopulmonary morbidity and mortality from pollutant exposures. However the public health relevance of pollution abatement is not yet given sufficient recognition by the authorities in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta……