The Exposome: Health Impacts of Environmental Exposures

Dear Colleagues,

Environmental contributions to morbidity and mortality are challenging to ascertain given the complex net of environmental exposures that change and accumulate over the life span. The “exposome” concept, formulated by C. P. Wild in 2005 to provide an environmental analogy of the genome, refers to the comprehensive assessment of multiple joint environmental exposures. Exposome research is fundamental to improve population health globally. As a substantial percentage of human disease is caused by modifiable environmental exposures, understanding health impacts from multiple exposures could inform solutions to reduce exposures simultaneously to multiple pollutants. As such, there is a need to increase epidemiological studies addressing the effects of multiple exposures on human morbidity and mortality, and new methods to address the methodological issues arising when evaluating multiple correlated exposures, especially within the causal modeling framework. Papers addressing this topic are invited to this Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). We will accept manuscripts from different disciplines, including exposure assessment science, epidemiology, intervention studies, and risk assessment studies. We will include manuscripts focused on combinations of different exposures, such as air pollution, water contamination, greenness, noise, and climate.

Dr. Maayan Yitshak-Sade
Dr. Kevin James Lane
Dr. Liuhua Shi
Guest Editors

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