Ambient air quality monitoring network design for assessing human health impacts from exposures to airborne contaminants

Existing methods of establishing ambient air quality monitoring networks typically evaluate only parameters related to ambient concentrations of the contaminant(s) of interest such as emission source characteristics, atmospheric transport and dispersion, secondary reactions, deposition characteristi...

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Published in:Environmental monitoring and assessment 2001, Vol.66 (1), p.63-76
Main Authors: BALDAUF, Richard W, LANE, Dennis D, MAROTE, Glen A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air Pollutants - analysis
Air pollution
Air quality
Air. Soil. Water. Waste. Feeding
Applied sciences
Atmospheric pollution
Biological and medical sciences
Contaminants
Data Collection
Environment. Living conditions
Environmental monitoring
Environmental Monitoring - methods
Epidemiologic Studies
Exact sciences and technology
Exposure
Health risks
Humans
Information Services
Medical sciences
Models, Theoretical
Pollution
Public Health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Risk assessment
Risk Assessment - methods
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Summary:Existing methods of establishing ambient air quality monitoring networks typically evaluate only parameters related to ambient concentrations of the contaminant(s) of interest such as emission source characteristics, atmospheric transport and dispersion, secondary reactions, deposition characteristics, and local topography. However, adverse health risks from exposures to airborne contaminants are a function of the contaminant and the anatomic and physiologic characteristics of the exposed population. Thus, ambient air quality monitoring networks designed for the protection of public health or for epidemiological studies evaluating adverse health impacts from exposures to ambient air contaminants should account for both contaminant characteristics and human health parameters. A methodology has been established which optimizes ambient air quality monitoring networks for assessments of adverse human health impacts from exposures to airborne contaminants by incorporating human health risk assessment techniques. The use of risk assessment techniques as the basis for designing ambient air quality monitoring networks will help to target limited financial and human resources to evaluate human health risks from exposures to airborne contaminants.
ISSN:0167-6369
1573-2959
DOI:10.1023/A:1026428214799