Diagnóstico de la incidencia del PM2.5 en la salud de los habitantes de la localidad de Engativá y propuesta de prevención y mitigación de los impactos adversos de la contaminación del aire en la salubridad de la zona
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The town of Engativá, being adjacent to the town of Puente Aranda and Fontibón, has gradually seen its air quality permeated, and consequently, the health of its inhabitants, due to the high concentrations of criteria pollutants present in the area. One of these pollutants is PM2.5. For this reason, in this document it was intended to establish the relationship between the concentrations of the aforementioned pollutant and the number of cases and deaths due to infections and respiratory diseases in the locality, between 2010 and 2019, in order to provide elements of judgment that make it possible to carry out a proposal for the prevention and mitigation of air pollution and its harmful effects on the health of its inhabitants. To achieve this task, the collection, review and qualitative, statistical and spatial analysis of quantitative information was carried out regarding the average concentration of PM2.5, behavior of various meteorological parameters, cases and deaths due to infections and respiratory diseases and citizen perception. against air pollution and its harmful effects on human health, in the town of Engativá. As a result of the above, it was deduced that in the 2010-2019 time interval in the study area, the concentration of PM2.5 did not have a significant incidence in the increase or decrease of cases and deaths due to respiratory diseases and diseases, and that the UPZ Engativá was the most affected by the presence of this pollutant. Likewise, a proposal for the prevention and mitigation of air pollution and the dangers that it implies there was built.