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Outdoor-indoor air pollution in urban environment: Challenges and opportunity [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2015
With the continual improvement in our quality of life, indoor air quality has become an important area of concern in the 21st century. Indoor air quality is affected by many factors including the type and running conditions of indoor pollution sources ...
Dennis Y.C. eLeung
doaj   +3 more sources

Systemic inequalities in indoor air pollution exposure in London, UK

open access: yesBuildings & Cities, 2021
Deprived communities in many cities are exposed to higher levels of outdoor air pollution, and there is increasing evidence of similar disparities for indoor air pollution exposure. There is a need to understand the drivers for this exposure disparity in
Lauren Ferguson   +6 more
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Quantifying the dynamic characteristics of indoor air pollution using real-time sensors: Current status and future implication

open access: yesEnvironment International, 2023
People generally spend most of their time indoors, making indoor air quality be of great significance to human health. Large spatiotemporal heterogeneity of indoor air pollution can be hardly captured by conventional filter-based monitoring but real-time
Jinze Wang   +7 more
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A state-of-the-art review on indoor air pollution and strategies for indoor air pollution control.

open access: yesChemosphere, 2021
Indoor air pollution has traditionally received less attention than outdoors pollution despite indoors pollutant levels are typically twice higher, and people spend 80-90% of their life in increasing air-tight buildings.
Javier González-Martín   +4 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Air pollution and indoor settings

open access: yesWorld Allergy Organization Journal, 2021
Indoor environments contribute significantly to total human exposure to air pollutants, as people spend most of their time indoors. Household air pollution (HAP) resulting from cooking with polluting (“dirty”) fuels, which include coal, kerosene, and ...
Nelson Augusto Rosário Filho   +13 more
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Who Actually Dies from Indoor Air Pollution? A Forensic Perspective [PDF]

open access: yesDiagnostics
In high-income countries, humans are continuously exposed to indoor and outdoor air pollution. Chronic exposure to these airborne solids and gases from natural or artificial sources is related to higher mortality.
Nicola Pigaiani   +8 more
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Characteristics of indoor ozone pollution in residential buildings based on outdoor air pollution [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2022
Ozone pollution can not only cause serious effects on human respiratory tract, lung, cardiovascular and immune system, but also lead to secondary pollution of indoor air environment by reacting with human surface sebum, building materials surface and ...
Jing Lijun, Wang Jun
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Global modeling of heterogeneous hydroxymethanesulfonate chemistry [PDF]

open access: yesAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021
Hydroxymethanesulfonate (HMS) has recently been identified as an abundant organosulfur compound in aerosols during winter haze episodes in northern China. It has also been detected in other regions although the concentrations are low.
S. Song   +14 more
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Phthalate levels in Chinese residences: Seasonal and regional variations and the implication on human exposure

open access: yesNational Science Open, 2023
Indoor pollution of manmade semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) such as phthalates are a growing threat to human health. Herein we summarize the dust-phase phthalate concentrations in Chinese residences reported from 2011 to 2021 and simulate ...
Li Yatai   +6 more
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Contribution of hydroxymethanesulfonate (HMS) to severe winter haze in the North China Plain [PDF]

open access: yesAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2020
Severe winter haze accompanied by high concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) occurs frequently in the North China Plain and threatens public health.
T. Ma   +19 more
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