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EXPOLIS (Air Pollution Exposure Distributions within Adult Urban Populations in Europe) - study focuses on working age urban populations in Europe, exposed to air pollutants in their homes, workplaces and other common urban microenvironments (streets, shopping, etc.), and commuting between them. The urban areas selected for EXPOLIS-study are Athens, Basel, Grenoble, Helsinki, Milan and Prague. The objectives of the EXPOLIS-study are:
* To measure the distributions of exposures of European adult urban populations to major air pollutants.
* To analyse the personal, indoor and outdoor environmental, and communal determinants of these exposures.
* To develop a probabilistic simulation technique for predicting air pollution exposure distributions in defined subpopulations and/or alternative exposure scenarios.
Introduction
After recent epidemiological investigations air pollution, especially PM10 is estimated to annually increase
respiratory and cardiovascular mortality by tens of thousands of cases in Europe and significantly reduce the
length of life in populations. The health effects of air pollutants are not caused by their levels at fixed outdoor
monitoring sites, but instead by the personal exposures of the affected individuals in their daily activities.
Methods
These objectives are pursued by measuring for 48 hours the personal exposures, home indoor and outdoor and
workplace microenvironmental levels of inhalable particulate matter (PM2.5) volatile organic compounds (VOC),
and carbon monoxide (CO); of approximately 500 randomly selected individuals between 25 and 55 years of
age. This data is used to determine:
*frequency distributions of the air pollution exposures of the populations,
*distributions of the timing and times spent by the populations in different microenvironments (TAD
measurements) and by analysis of,
*the roles of the geographic, housing, occupation and commuting related, behavioral and socio-economic
determinants of air pollution exposures, and
*the roles of different air pollution sources in the air pollution exposures, to develop
*European databases for simulation of air pollution exposures of the urban populations and
subpopulations in alternative future exposure scenarios by a probabilistic simulation technique.
Dziedzina nauki
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistryinorganic compounds
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistryvolatile organic compounds
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
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