Assessment of personal exposure to particulate air pollution: the first result of City Health Outlook (CHO) project

• Published in: BMC public health Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 711 - 12
• Main Authors: Liang, Lu, Gong, Peng, Cong, Na, Li, Zhichao, Zhao, Yu, Chen, Ying
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 07.06.2019; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Aerosols; Air pollution; Air quality; Body weight; Diabetes; Digital media; Environmental aspects; Environmental health; Environmental monitoring; Environmental protection; Equality; Exposure; Geographic information systems; Global positioning systems; GPS; Health; Health aspects; Health risk assessment; Health risks; Heterogeneity; Humidity; Methods; Obesity; Overweight; Participatory GIS; Particulate emissions; Particulate matter; Particulate pollutants; Passive smoking; Personal exposure; Pollutants; Pollution; Pollution levels; Populations; Public health; R&D; Real time; Regression analysis; Research & development; Sensors; Sentinel surveillance; Smoking; Social media; Studies; Systematic review; Temporal variations; Travel; Urban environments; Urbanization; Ventilation; China; Beijing China; Urbanization; Participatory GIS; Personal exposure; Particulate matter; Public health

To mitigate air pollution-related health risks and target interventions towards the populations bearing the greatest risks, the City Health Outlook (CHO) project aims to establish multi-scale, long-lasting, real-time urban environment and health monitoring networks. A major goal of CHO is to collect...