Indoor Air Pollutants and Public Health (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 1342
Special Issue Editors
Interests: building environment; indoor air quality; ambient environment; public health
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Interests: ambient environment; VOCs; PM2.5; public health; children
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Interests: public health; AI health; environmental statistics; biostatistics; machine learning
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Interests: air pollution; environmental health; low-cost sensors; healthy buildings
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Interests: building environment; indoor air quality; pollution source control
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a follow-up of the 1st edition of “Indoor Air Quality and Public Health” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/17VQ6MV5LS).
Environmental factors are major determinants of human health worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), up to 20% of all deaths were attributed to environmental factors. People spend most of their time indoors, so indoor sources of exposure have lifelong implications for health. In recent decades, a wide range of modern pollutants associated with new building materials and modernized lifestyles have emerged. Furthermore, the ambient air pollutants infiltrating into indoor spaces which are closely linked to disease burden for individuals and communities are also spiking. Thus, there is an urgent need to recognize and address health-related environmental pollutants, including the type of pollutants, the source of pollutants and how they related to healthy outcomes.
However, clarifying the source of pollutants and characterizing the relationship between pollutants and health is a complex and difficult process. The emission source characteristics are too complex to be addressed. The multiple influencing factors and emission sources are responsible for concentrations of various pollutants, and the characteristics vary in different situations. Added to this is the fact that it is “contingent” for pollutants to have an effect on health. Susceptible individuals must receive sufficient does of exposures to induce detectable symptoms of various dimensions, and adverse health effects are usually too weak to be recognized. In addition, the interaction effect between indoor/outdoor pollutants and healthy outcomes is much more difficult to detect than pollutants emitted from single source. However, the interaction effects among pollutants represent the most significant threat they pose.
This Special Issue of Atmosphere welcomes contributions on aspects of indoor/outdoor environmental pollutants related to the health of populations. Publications highlighting methods for detecting, validating, addressing, qualifying or quantifying the emission source characteristics of indoor/outdoor pollutants, as well as the association between them and human health and interaction effects of indoor/outdoor pollutants on healthy outcome, are encouraged.
Dr. Shaodan Huang
Dr. Jing Li
Dr. Chuan Hong
Dr. Jianbang Xiang
Dr. Lei Lei
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- indoor air quality
- air pollutants
- VOCs
- PM2.5
- ventilation
- public health
