Air Pollution—Measurement Methods, Exposure, and Health Determinants
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 31173
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environment (air pollution in particular, but also noise pollution): atmospheric pollution (PM, PAHs, heavy metals, gaseous pollutants); environmental data analysis; environmental engineering; environmental epidemiology; environmental exposure; environmental health; environmental impact assessment; environmental management; environmental monitoring; environmental pollution; environmental protection; environmental toxicology; renewable energy sources; health (respiratory diseases (asthma, COPD) in particular, but also allergies and cardiovascular diseases (IHD)): airway obstruction; health impact assessment; health risk assessment; environmental medicine; exposure assessment; pulmonary function test
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Interests: environmental detection of pollutant toxic ions, cations, and molecules using chemosensors and sensors; development of new functionalized nanoparticles and nanomaterials; toxicological and bactericidal studies; personalized medicine; proteomics, especially studies involving the effect of the environment in health and wellbeing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will focus on measurement methods of air pollutants and issues related to the exposure on air pollutants, as well as health determinants. Air pollution is still an important global problem. According to the WHO recent data, over 90% of the global population lives in the conditions that do not meet the standards set for the protection of human health. In numerous countries, there is also a lack of air quality monitoring systems, which means that their societies are not aware of what air they breathe.
The development of various, nonreference methods for measuring concentrations of air pollutants, with a special emphasis on particulate matter, makes it necessary to assess the quality of measurement data collected by even low-budget measurement devices. That is why one of the elements of this Special Issue is dedicated to air quality measurement methods.
Together with professional (national) air quality monitoring systems (if they exist), new measurement methods give an opportunity to increase the quality of human exposure assessment to air pollutants and, as a result, to better assess the health effects of such exposure. This Special Issue is therefore also open to manuscripts presenting results of the research studies on the assessment of human exposure to air pollution and the analyses of adverse health effects being a consequence of the exposure of breathing polluted air.
Prof. Dr. Artur Badyda
Prof. Dr. Carlos Lodeiro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- air pollution
- air pollutants
- particulate matter
- measurement methods
- air quality monitoring
- exposure
- environmental determinants of health
- adverse health effects
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