Integrated human exposure to air pollution

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Biology, life sciences; Research & information: general; air pollutants; air pollution; air pollution monitoring; air purifier; air quality; Air Quality Decision Support System; air quality index; allergy; Arduino; area b; atmospheric aerosols; Baidu index; BenMap-CE; bioaerosols; biomarkers; breathing zone; chemical characterization; cooking fuel; counter-factual; cross validation; crowd-sensing; crowd-sourced sensing; culturable bacteria; dust sensor; e-cigarettes; economic growth; enrichment index; environmental analysis; eosinophil; experiment; FeNO; fine particulate matter; Granger causality test; hazard for human; health burden misclassification; health impact; heat-not-burn tobacco; household air pollution; human exposure; human health risk; indoor air quality; indoor pollutants; industrialization; infectious disease; IoT; kriging; long-term trends; low birth weight; lung inflammation; milan; monitoring; n/a; neutrophil; Nigeria; occupant; oxides; particulate matter; particulate matters (PM); passenger cars; perinatal mortality; Personal Air Pollution Exposure (PAPE); PM10 emission factors; PM2.5; Poisson regression; policy intervention analysis; pollution; population exposure; preterm births; public concern; real-time monitoring unit; road dust; seasonality; Shanghai; source apportionment; state space; stillbirth; tier-models; time-series; tobacco smoke; traditional smoking products; traffic; transfer unit; tuberculosis; unobservable components; urbanization; wireless networks
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication

 The book "Integrated human exposure to air pollution" aimed to increase knowledge about human exposure in different micro-environments, or when citizens are performing specific tasks, to demonstrate methodologies for the understanding of pollution sources and their impact on indoor and ambient air quality, and, ultimately, to identify the most effective mitigation measures to decrease human exposure and protect public health. Taking advantage of the latest available tools, such as internet of things (IoT), low-cost sensors and a wide access to online platforms and apps by the citizens, new methodologies and approaches can be implemented to understand which factors can influence human exposure to air pollution. This knowledge, when made available to the citizens, along with the awareness of the impact of air pollution on human life and earth systems, can empower them to act, individually or collectively, to promote behavioral changes aiming to reduce pollutants' emissions. Overall, this book gathers fourteen innovative studies that provide new insights regarding these important topics within the scope of human exposure to air pollution. A total of five main areas were discussed and explored within this book and, hopefully, can contribute to the advance of knowledge in this field.