Air Pollution and Children’s Health
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 3101
Special Issue Editors
Interests: public health; environmental health; urban health; indoor air quality; water quality
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Interests: health risk assessment; occupational health & safety; public health; air pollution; process safety
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Interests: epidemiology; infection control and prevention; health technology assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The objective of this Special Issue is to provide a discussion of air quality and children’s health. The World Health Organization has suggested that exposure to air pollution is an overlooked health emergency for children around the world. Children are exposed to air pollution both outdoors and indoors and are at greater risk from inhaled pollutants than adults due to their unique activity patterns and behavior, their natural biological defenses being less developed, as well as the fact that they are particularly susceptible during development. Increasing pollution, e.g., heavy metals, endocrine disrupting chemicals, microplastics, black carbon, and allergens are distributed in aerosol particulate matters from different sources, leading to health risk to exposure children. However, the toxicity mechanism, the assessment of the associated risk to children, and the main sources are still far from being understood. Identifying additional toxic air contaminants that might differentially impact children, assessing health risk effectively and tracing the sources, can help to develop new regulations to reduce exposure and mitigate risks in a timely and effective manner.
This Special Issue will consider all “Impacts of Air Pollution on Children’s Health”.
Dr. Marco Dettori
Dr. Christos D. Argyropoulos
Dr. Zoi Dorothea Pana
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- air pollution
- children health
- air particle matter
- epidemiology
- developing countries
- vehicle emissions
- indoor air
- exposure
- health risk assessment
- aerosol
- toxicity
- sand and dust storm (SDS)
- organic/metal chemicals in particles
