The Silent Crisis: Air Pollution and Its Hidden Impact on Human Health
A special issue of Journal of Xenobiotics (ISSN 2039-4713).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 1107
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Interests: environmental/atmospheric process modeling; advanced human exposure science; health impact assessment of environmental stressors; neural computation
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Interests: occupational epidemiology; industrial hygiene; risk assessment; environmental monitoring; biological monitoring
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Interests: inhalation toxicology; thoracic medicine; environmental medicine; occupational medicine; epidemiology
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Interests: epidemiology; environmental health; toxicology; reproduction; biomarker
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, titled “The Silent Crisis: Air Pollution and Its Hidden Impact on Human Health”, aims to shed light on the health hazards of air pollutants, including physical, chemical, and biological agents.
This Special Issue attempts to consolidate the latest advancements and diverse perspectives within the field of air pollution. It aims to foster a comprehensive understanding of the complex interplay between air pollutants and human impacts, providing a platform for sharing innovative research, methodologies, and insightful analyses.
The suggested themes include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Health hazards evaluations: Demonstrating health impacts for humans exposed to air pollutants.
- Emerging pollutants: Exploring the impacts of new air contaminants on humans.
- Multiple-source effects: Assessing pollutant effects across different sources, including industry, transportation, residential, and the power generation of air pollution.
- Air pollution control: Air pollution control measures can be categorized into source control, emission control, and regulatory control.
- Methodological innovations: Showcasing novel approaches for assessing air pollution risks, including advances in exposure and risk assessment such as causal inference, machine learning, remote sensing, low-cost sensor networks, personal monitoring, exposome-informed approaches, and integrative modeling.
- Identifying susceptible populations, quantifying inequities, and evaluating the effectiveness of control policies to inform actionable public health and regulatory decisions.
- Policy evaluation: Evaluating control measures to inform public health decisions and regulatory actions.
The following types of articles for contributions are encouraged.
- Original research articles: Presenting new findings, data, and analyses of air pollution.
- Review articles: Comprehensive assessments of specific aspects or trends in air pollutants.
- Methodological papers: Describing innovative methodologies and approaches in assessing air contaminant impacts.
- Case studies: Real-world applications and observations of air pollution.
Dr. Spyros Karakitsios
Dr. Chih-Hong Pan
Prof. Dr. Hsiao-Chi Chuang
Prof. Dr. Hueiwang Anna Cook Jeng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- health hazards evaluations
- emerging pollutants
- multiple-source effects
- air pollution control
- methodological innovations
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