Assessment of Novel Environmental Exposure on Humans

Dear Colleagues,

Adverse health effects resulting from exposure to new emergency environmental factors in multiple media on human health have been of major concern worldwide. New threaten of physical, biological and chemical exposure from the indoor and outdoor environment would influence human health. For examples, persistent organic pollutants, endocrine disruptors, emerging environmental pollution, toxic metals, or drugs in different media are concerned determinants of environmental risk factors. Although the regulations of many legacy contaminants or drugs, like dioxins and DES, the accumulation in the human body would dramatically change; however, new substitutes of the above chemicals have been largely and widely applied in numerous products or re-shaped and distributed into the environment since the early 21 centuries. Meanwhile, factors change (like temperature, green land, radiation, fungi, etc.) by climate change would gradually affect our health. Increasing evidence revealed the impact of climate change occurred in the European, America, Asian and Africa, which raised the public concern about potential adverse health effects of individual or combined exposure to these new factors through multiple levels of exposure/media.

Low- and long-term exposure to the influences of above exposure factors triggers the disease progression in humans, including developmental, reproductive, endocrine hormone homeostasis, metabolic regulation, circulation, etc. Exploration of new biomarkers/ mediators for the above exposure plays a crucial role in disease prevention.  However, large unknown gaps on the exposure sources, biological effects, and risk assessment of concerned environmental pollutants on human’s health remain.

This Special Issue calls for submissions that focus on research investigating associations between new emergency environmental pollutants or important contaminants or drug exposures and human’s health, especially through epidemiological, biomonitoring, and novel approaches.

Dr. Po-Chin Huang
Dr. Vinoth Kumar Ponnusamy
Guest Editors

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• epidemiology
• exposure assessment
• risk assessment
• human health
• analytical method