Health Effects of Human Exposure to Environmental Pollution
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 2079
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Air pollution is considered the main environmental risk factor responsible for premature deaths worldwide. It is estimated that every year in Europe, about 400 thousand people die prematurely. These deaths are related mostly to respiratory, cardiovascular diseases, and cancers, in particular lung cancer. Nowadays, this subject is of special importance to public health, especially in urban environments.
Air pollution could be sourced from the industry, extensive use of fuel of various kinds for combustion in home furnaces, or from the transport. In the case of transport, air pollution is related to the incomplete combustion of fuel as well as to non-exhaust emission. Furthermore, contamination particles when bounded to various solid samples can easily be released to all components of the environment. The growing environment pollution, posing the largest threat to human health and the environment, confirms the legitimacy of the need for estimation of environmental risks in the environment and their impact on human health.
Potential topics include:
- Sources, origin, fate, and transport of pollutants/contaminants in urban and rural environments;
- Link between exposure to certain contaminants and potential human health outcomes;
- Contamination of environments with heavy metals, WWA, microplastics, nanoplastics, and their ecological and/or human health effects;
- Modeling of pollution/contamination processes having clear environmental and/or human health effects.
Prof. Dr. Ewa Adamiec
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- air pollution
- exhaust and non-exhaust emission
- heavy metals
- microplastics
- nanoplatics
- WWA
- human health risk assessment
- urban and rural environments
- fate and transport of pollutants
