Air Pollution Monitoring Design for Epidemiological Application in a Densely Populated City

Air Pollution Monitoring Design for Epidemiological Application in a Densely Populated City

Introduction: Many studies have reported the association between air pollution and human health based on regulatory air pollution monitoring data. However, because regulatory monitoring networks were not designed for epidemiological studies, the collected data may not provide sufficient spatial contrasts for assessing such associations. Our goal was to develop a monitoring design supplementary ...

Air Pollution in a City Street.

Design of an Air Pollution Monitoring Campaign in Beijing for Application to Cohort Health Studies

No cohort studies in China on the health effects of long-term air pollution exposure have employed exposure estimates at the fine spatial scales desirable for cohort studies with individual-level health outcome data. Here we assess an array of modern air pollution exposure estimation approaches for assigning within-city exposure estimates in Beijing for individual pollutants and pollutant sourc...

Managing the adverse thermal effects of urban development in a densely populated Chinese city.

Guangzhou city in South China has experienced an accelerated urban development since the 1980s. This paper examines the impact of the urban development on urban heat islands through a historical analysis of urban-rural air temperature differences. Remote sensing techniques were applied to derive information on land use/cover and land surface temperatures and to assess the thermal response patte...

Indoor versus outdoor childhood submersion injury in a densely populated city.

AIM To review the outcome of childhood submersion injury (SI). METHODS We reviewed discharge data of all children with SI who were hospitalized in a university teaching hospital between January 2002 and January 2008. RESULTS There were 15 admissions (8 males and 7 females). Outdoor SI (n = 10) were more common than indoor SI (n = 5) and 7 cases occurred in public swimming pools with life gu...