Outdoor Air Pollution and Human Health (3rd Edition)
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 59
Special Issue Editors
Interests: acid rain; cloud water chemistry; water and human health issues; health impacts of air pollution
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Interests: air pollution studies; air quality; water quality; public health; environmental chemistry; environmental science; environmental analysis; health risk assessment; environmental pollution; environmental monitoring
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Interests: air quality; particulate matter; atmospheric pollution; air pollution studies; air sampling; aerosol chemistry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
After successfully launching the first and second volumes of this Special Issue (“Outdoor Air Pollution and Human Health”: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/outdoor_pollution_health; “Outdoor Air Pollution and Human Health (2nd Edition)”: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/special_issues/outdoor_pollution_health_2nd_Volume), we decided to expand our Special Issue into a third volume due to interest from numerous scholars.
Outdoor air pollution is the world’s leading environmental health threat, contributing to about 7 million premature deaths annually. The global cost of air pollution in 2018 was USD 2.9 trillion or about 3.3% of the entire world’s economic output. Rapid population growth and industrial growth are accompanied by intense but poorly regulated human activities. The mixing of natural emissions with anthropogenic emissions from fossil fuel combustion, agricultural burning, industrial activities, vehicular traffic, household cooking and heating, etc., creates a complex environment. Many pollutants such as gases (ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds), biological particles (bacteria, fungi, pollen), and particulate matter (inorganic and organic components) are considered key indicators of outdoor air pollution. Air pollution exposure is a well-known driver of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, lung cancer, communicable diseases like pneumonia, diabetes, low birth weight, tuberculosis, mental health, and it has cognitive impacts on people such as those with autism, Alzheimer’s disease, and dementia. A better understanding of the levels and sources of air pollutants and the key contributors to their health burden is critical for implementing effective air pollution control strategies. This Special Issue will consider all innovative papers on “Outdoor Air Pollution and Its Impact on Human Health”.
Dr. Haider A. Khwaja
Dr. Azhar Siddique
Dr. Mirza M. Hussain
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- air pollution
- particulate matter
- source apportionment
- exposure assessment
- epidemiological studies
- biological mechanisms
- mitigation strategies
