Environmental Health Surveillance System for a Population Using Advanced Exposure Assessment

Human exposure to air pollution is a major public health concern. Environmental policymakers have been implementing various strategies to reduce exposure, including the 10th-day-no-driving system. To assess exposure of an entire population of a community in a highly polluted area, pollutant concentr...

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Published in:Toxics (Basel) 2020-09, Vol.8 (3), p.74
Main Authors: Yang, Wonho, Park, Jinhyeon, Cho, Mansu, Lee, Cheolmin, Lee, Jeongil, Lee, Chaekwan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activity patterns
Air monitoring
Air pollution
Artificial intelligence
Atmospheric diffusion
Atmospheric models
Atmospheric monitoring
Environmental health
environmental health surveillance system
Evaluation
Exposure
exposure assessment
Health surveillance
Internet of Things
Interpolation
Microenvironments
Outdoor air quality
Pollutants
Pollution dispersion
Pollution monitoring
population exposure
Public health
Review
Sensors
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Summary:Human exposure to air pollution is a major public health concern. Environmental policymakers have been implementing various strategies to reduce exposure, including the 10th-day-no-driving system. To assess exposure of an entire population of a community in a highly polluted area, pollutant concentrations in microenvironments and population time–activity patterns are required. To date, population exposure to air pollutants has been assessed using air monitoring data from fixed atmospheric monitoring stations, atmospheric dispersion modeling, or spatial interpolation techniques for pollutant concentrations. This is coupled with census data, administrative registers, and data on the patterns of the time-based activities at the individual scale. Recent technologies such as sensors, the Internet of Things (IoT), communications technology, and artificial intelligence enable the accurate evaluation of air pollution exposure for a population in an environmental health context. In this study, the latest trends in published papers on the assessment of population exposure to air pollution were reviewed. Subsequently, this study proposes a methodology that will enable policymakers to develop an environmental health surveillance system that evaluates the distribution of air pollution exposure for a population within a target area and establish countermeasures based on advanced exposure assessment.
ISSN:2305-6304
2305-6304
DOI:10.3390/toxics8030074