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When wildfre smoke gets inside your home it can make your indoor air unhealthy, but there are steps you can take to protect your health and improve the air quality in your home.
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Modeling of residential outdoor exposure to traffic air pollution and assessment of associated health effects [PDF]
, 2014 Traffic air pollution is known to affect cardiopulmonary health in the population. Children with asthma are amongst the most susceptible groups. Several epidemiological studies linked traffic air pollution with increased reporting of asthmatic symptoms ...
Ducret-Stich, Regina Elisabeth
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A walk in the park—Identifying healthy greenspaces using scents
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.As urbanisation accelerates globally, access to nature is increasingly recognised as vital for public health and wellbeing. We captured and analysed plant‐emitted airborne ‘scent signatures’ across Oxford's urban greenspaces to assess their potential health relevance.
William T. Kay +6 more
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Socioeconomic disparities in mortality from indoor air pollution: A multi-country study.
PLoS ONEBackgroundIndoor air pollution is a major public health concern, contributing to approximately 2.9 million deaths and 81.1 million disability-adjusted life years lost annually. This issue disproportionately affects underprivileged communities that depend
Muayad Albadrani
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Indoor air quality in primary schools [PDF]
, 2011 Clean air is a basic requirement of life. The Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) has been the object of several studies due to an increasing concern within the scientific community on the effects of indoor air quality upon health, especially as people tend to ...
Maria do Carmo Freitas +28 more
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Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Operators are exposed to concentrated formulation during mixing of pesticide into the nurse tank and to an in‐use dilution during loading the drone; stratification of exposure for mixing and loading would inform the exposure assessment approach by applying the appropriate dermal absorption considerations.
Edgars Felkers +4 more
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Reducing indoor air pollution through applied botanical biofiltration
, 2020 Increasing urban populations and behaviour associated with urban lifestyles has led to an increase in awareness of indoor environmental quality, especially maintenance and control of indoor air quality (IAQ). Potted plants, and more recently green walls,
Thomas Pettit +5 more
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, 2014 Indoor air pollution is associated with cardiovascular effects, however, little is known about the effects of improving indoor air quality on cardiovascular health.
Lin, Lian-Yu;Chuang, Hsiao-Chi;Liu, I-Jung;Chen, Hua-Wei;Chuang, Kai-Jen +1 more
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Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.This study develops a method to identify the source areas of precipitation events, as illustrated for the western part of the Netherlands. Radar‐based precipitation data are traced back to their source areas and machine‐learning techniques are used to identify hypothesized causes: urban heat, surface roughness, and air pollution. We find that urban and
Jelmer van der Graaff +1 more
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International Journal of Medical StudentsBackground: The air quality inside and outside of buildings and structures is referred to as indoor air quality (IAQ), particularly as it pertains to the comfort and health of building occupants.
Dhaarani Dharmaraj +4 more
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