Maggie O’Hare
Mr. Ippolito
10/7/19
Current Event 4 (Forensics D-Odd)
Sandoval, Lysette Maurice N. “Mental Health Issues In Children May Be Caused by Air
Pollution.” Science Times, 28 Sept. 2019, www.sciencetimes.com/articles/23920/ 20190928/mental-health-issues-children-caused-air-pollution.htm.
This article By Lysette Maurice Sandoval describes that mental health issues in children may be caused by air pollution. The author begins the article with a recent study from the University of Cincinnati who collaborated with the children’s hospital in the area. The results of this study concluded that a child’s exposure to air pollution causes psychiatric disorders one-two days later. They were able to come to this conclusion due to an increase in the emergency department concerning child psychiatry. Sandoval also mentions how this is a new study with little information and research done. She talks about how the environment children grow up causes stress and frequent psychiatric symptoms.
This article, while interesting, does not have much relevance. It is an important topic and something that should be further researched. I think that there is not enough evidence to convince many people that this is a very serious issue. It is definitely something that needs to be looked into further because I know there are many kids and adults that use the outdoors as a way o destress and calm down, however, this article is contradicting this belief that has been around a long time.
I thought that this article was an easy read, and flowed nicely. However, I wish the author would have included more evidence for this issue because there is not enough to convince readers that pollution is a cause of mental health issues. What Sandoval did do well, was used very reliable sources and studies but did not provide many details about these studies and findings.
2 comments:
Ruby Howell
Forensics Current Event #4
Mr. Ippilitto
10/6/19
Sandoval, Lysette Maurice N. “Mental Health Issues In Children May Be Caused by Air
Pollution.” Science Times, 28 Sept. 2019, www.sciencetimes.com/articles/23920/ 20190928/mental-health-issues-children-caused-air-pollution.htm.
In this review of the article titled: Mental Health Issues In Children May Be Caused by Air
Pollution, the author does an excellent job reflecting on the article given as well as incorporating some of the key components discussed in the reading. The article written by Lysette Maurice Sandoval focuses on the mental health issues present in children and how pollution has caused those issues to arise. Sandoval opens the article with a study of a completed in a children's hospital in the end showed the direct correlation between children and the problems that arise with children's exposure to pollution. Sandoval goes into depth about her methods used to conduct this case.
While explaining the significant parts of the article, the reviewer also gives useful insight to the downsides to the reading as well as its flaws. Some of which include the fact that while it was engaging, it had little relevance to the topic it was addressing, and the reviewer made an important point, “ It is an important topic and something that should be further researched. I think that there is not enough evidence to convince many people that this is a very serious issue. It is definitely something that needs to be looked into further because I know there are many kids and adults that use the outdoors as a way to destress and calm down, however, this article is contradicting this belief that has been around a long time…” The reviewer did an excellent job critiquing this article while also pointing out the flaws present within the authors writing. Overall, the article did an excellent job explaining the issue at hand, but did not do a good job addressing what to do next as the call to action to the problem.
Madison Meehan
10/17/19
Forensics D Odd
Current Event 5 Comment
Sandoval, Lysette Maurice N. “Mental Health Issues In Children May Be Caused by Air
Pollution.” Science Times, 28 Sept. 2019,
https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/23920/20190928/mental-health-issues-children-ca
Used-air-pollution.htm
Maggie chose a very interesting article about how mental health issues in children may be caused by air pollution, something I have never heard about before. I believe Maggie did a very good job responding to an article that didn’t have much data and analysis to back it up. She made it very clear while summarizing the article that there was not much evidence in this case. She also did a very good job critiquing the author, mainly because of the lack of evidence.
Although Maggie did a very good job with the summarization and explanation of this article, there were some small things she could work on. I think the topic of the article was very interesting, however, because it had no evidence I didn’t learn a lot from it. Just as Maggie said, “it does not have much relevance”. I also think she could have explained it in greater detail.
Overall, Maggie did a very good job summarizing this article, and I believe it was a very interesting topic to think about. I learned about something that I never would have connected prior to reading this review, which I thought was very interesting.
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