Networks of fixed-site air monitors form the backbone of current efforts to predict health effects of air pollution. But there aren’t enough monitors on the ground to accurately account for local variations in ambient concentrations of air pollutants, even for those pollutants considered of most concern in many countries, such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5). Experts have long struggled to d...

BACKGROUND To investigate air pollution effects during pregnancy or in the first weeks of life, models are needed that capture both the spatial and temporal variability of air pollution exposures. METHODS We developed a time-space exposure model for ambient NO2 concentrations in Bern, Switzerland. We used NO2 data from passive monitoring conducted between 1998 and 2009: 101 rural sites (24,49...

OBJECTIVES Motor vehicle exhaust fumes are the main source of atmospheric pollution in cities in industrialised countries. They cause respiratory disease and annoy people exposed to them. The relation between ambient exposure to air pollution mainly from motor vehicles and annoyance reactions in a general population was assessed. Also, the importance of factors such as age, sex, respiratory dis...

OBJECTIVE We sought to assess the effect of long-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the prevalence of self-reported health outcomes in Australian women. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The geocoded residential addresses of 26,991 women across 3 age cohorts in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health between 2006 and 2011 were linked to nitrogen dioxi...

Wang et al. (2014) investigated the relationship between ambient air pollution and depressive symptoms in a prospective study of elderly people over age 65 years. We are very surprised that the authors found no association between ambient air pollution and depressive symptoms, which is inconsistent with most previous studies (e.g., Banerjee et al. 2012; Calderón-Garcidueñas et al. 2014). A stud...

the relationship between public health and urban planning is an innovative and important issue that it has prominent position in future urban planning. in this context, adverse air quality condition and air pollutant concentrations higher than the permitted limit set by the world health organization is considered as a threat to the health of citizens in big cities. according to result of air po...

in the present study, air quality analyses for ozone (o3) were conducted in ahvaz, a city in the south of iran. the measurements were taken from 2009 through 2010 in two different locations to prepare average data in the city. relations between the air pollutant and some meteorological parameters were calculated statistically using the daily average data. the wind data (velocity, direction), re...

Monitoring air pollution including the contents of VOC, O(3), NO(2), and dusts has attracted a lot of interest in addition to the monitoring of water contamination because it affects directly to the quality of living conditions. Most of the current air pollution monitoring stations use the expensive and bulky instruments and are only installed in the very limited area. To bring the information ...