Air Pollution and Health: From Exposure Assessment to Biological Mechanisms and Risk Prevention
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Pollution and Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 December 2026 | Viewed by 948
Editors
Interests: environmental health; air pollution; particulate matter; risk assessment; exposure science; toxic effect and mechanism
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Interests: environmental health; air pollution; nanoparticles; exposure and toxicity identification; molecular mechanism
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Interests: exposure modeling; particulate matter; oxidative potential; environmental health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Studies by the World Health Organization (WHO) have shown that almost all of the world’s population breathes air that exceeds WHO air quality limits, posing a significant threat to human health. In addition, emerging pollutants could be bounded on particulate matters and enter into the human body, posing a threat to public health and safety. To understand the mechanisms underlying the health effects of air pollution, accurate exposure assessments—from ambient environments to internal human body burdens—need to be integrated with epidemiological investigations and advanced toxicological approaches. Furthermore, the linkages between ambient air pollutant exposure, internal biomarkers of air pollutants, and the biological mechanisms associated with health outcomes require further elucidation. In this Special Issue, “Air Pollution and Health: From Exposure Assessment to Biological Mechanisms and Risk Prevention”, we aim to present a collection of original articles or reviews on the following topics:
- Exposure assessment: integrating external and internal exposure to ambient air pollutants and emerging pollutants.
- Biological mechanisms: exploring the biological and molecular mechanisms based on both toxicological models and human observational studies.
- Innovative toxicity assessment methods: developing new methodologies for determining the toxicity and health impacts of air pollutants.
- Epidemiological studies: utilizing population-based cohorts, case–control, and time-series designs to assess the associations between short- and long-term air pollution exposure and a wide range of health endpoints.
- Health prevention: translating exposure and mechanistic evidence into strategies for reducing exposure and mitigating adverse health effects.
Dr. Ting Wang
Dr. Tingting Ku
Dr. Jia Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- air pollution
- exposure assessment
- epidemiological study
- biological mechanism
- emerging pollutants
- health prevention
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