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Systematic review of synergistic effect between air pollutants and temperature on human mortality in China

open access: yes环境与职业医学, 2022
BackgroundAir pollutants and extreme temperature both pose significant threats to human health, but the synergistic effect between air pollutants and temperature on health is inconsistent.ObjectiveTo explore a potential synergistic effect between air ...
Xiu LI, Bo FANG
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Soil-Air exchange controls on background atmospheric concentrations of organochlorine pesticides [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Soils are the major terrestrial reservoir of persistent organic pollutants, and thus net volatilization from soil, when it happens, may exert a control on the atmospheric occurrence and variability of organic pollutants.
Dachs, J.   +3 more
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Features and Practicability of the Next-Generation Sensors and Monitors for Exposure Assessment to Airborne Pollutants: A Systematic Review

open access: yesSensors, 2021
In the last years, the issue of exposure assessment of airborne pollutants has been on the rise, both in the environmental and occupational fields. Increasingly severe national and international air quality standards, indoor air guidance values, and ...
Giacomo Fanti   +8 more
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Occupational and indoor air exposure to persistent organic pollutants : a review of passive sampling techniques and needs. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and related compounds such as PCBs, brominated flame retardants, organochlorine pesticides and PAHs is regarded as an important environmental risk factor for humans.
Pernilla Bohlin   +11 more
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Spatial variability of air pollutants in the Basel area and carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risk [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
In environmental epidemiology, exposure assessment is a central topic as its quality determines in large part the validity of a study. Further, it is used in risk assessment to quantify the impact of environmental risk factors.
Röösli, Martin
core   +1 more source

0315 Occupational exposure to air pollution and bladder cancer [PDF]

open access: yesOccupational and Environmental Medicine, 2014
Objectives To present the rationale behind the qualitative IARC evaluation of outdoor air pollution and the new findings on bladder cancer derived from occupational epidemiological studies. Method The International Agency for Research on Cancer recently used a series of systematic reviews to classify ‘outdoor air pollution’ as carcinogenic to humans
Neela Guha   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Indoor Air Quality and Indoor Environmental Quality: The role of occupational health surveillance and the cooperation between public and occupational health stakeholders [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Health and Social Sciences, 2023
This viewpoint emphasizes the growing significance of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in improving health and comfort in indoor environments, a crucial concern given that individuals spend approximately 90% of their time indoors.
Francesco Chirico   +2 more
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Chronic exposure to outdoor air pollution and diagnosed cardiovascular disease: meta-analysis of three large cross-sectional surveys. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
BACKGROUND: Higher exposure to outdoor air pollution is associated with increased cardiopulmonary deaths, but there is limited evidence about the association between outdoor air pollution and diagnosed cardiovascular disease.
Stedman John R   +38 more
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The exposures and health effects of benzene, toluene and naphthalene for Chinese chefs in multiple cooking styles of kitchens

open access: yesEnvironment International, 2021
Commercial cooking has higher intensity and more severe instantaneous cooking pollution from volatile organic chemicals compared to home cooking, making health risk assessment of occupational exposure for chefs a priority. In this study, chefs from three
Lei Huang   +6 more
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Advances on mechanisms of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in abnormal glucose metabolism induced by air pollution

open access: yes环境与职业医学, 2022
Recently, the adverse health effects of air pollution on human have attracted more and more attentions. Particulate matters (such as PM2.5 and PM10, with aerodynamic diameters ≤2.5 and ≤10 µm, respectively) and ozone are the major ambient pollutants in ...
Bin PAN, Wenhui YANG, Yanyi XU
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