Environmental and Occupational Exposure to Airborne Hazardous Pollutants: Contributions from (Bio)Monitoring Studies to Improve Human Health

Dear colleagues,

Human environmental and/or occupational exposure to health-hazardous pollutants has implications in the health of exposed people, principally for the most susceptible groups of the population (children, pregnant women, people with chronic diseases, and the elderly). Air pollution, a known human carcinogen, represents an environmental problem that causes numerous adverse effects in relation to human health. Populations are regularly exposed to a countless number of airborne pollutants, such as particulate matter (PM), volatile organic compounds including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NO_x), and ground-level ozone (O₃), originating from different sources such as wildfires, industrial and traffic emissions, etc. A comprehensive and complete exposure assessment requires the monitoring of environmental and/or occupational (micro)environments for health-relevant pollutants, and whenever possible, this must be complemented with biomonitoring studies to determine the concentrations of those pollutants or the main metabolites in human biological fluids (e.g., exhaled air, blood, urine, milk, and saliva).

This Special Issue is devoted to publishing original research and state-of-the-art reviews addressing human environmental and/or occupational exposure to airborne hazardous pollutants (PM, PAHs, CO, NO_x, and O₃).

Studies combining human (environmental and/or occupational) exposures with biomonitoring assays and the associated potential health risks are welcome.

Dr. Marta Oliveira
Prof. Cristina Delerue-Matos
Dr. Carmen Freire
Guest Editors

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