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A participant-based approach to indoor/outdoor air monitoring in community health studies
Community health studies of traffic-related air pollution have been hampered by the cost and participant burden associated with collecting household-level exposure data. The current study utilized a participan...
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Use of health information in air pollution health research: Past successes and emerging needs
In September 2006, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) co-organized a symposium on “Air Pollution Exposure and Health.” The main objective of this symposium was ...
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Exposure information in environmental health research: Current opportunities and future directions for particulate matter, ozone, and toxic air pollutants
Understanding and quantifying outdoor and indoor sources of human exposure are essential but often not adequately addressed in health effect studies for air pollution. Air pollution epidemiology, risk assessme...
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Summary and findings of the EPA and CDC symposium on air pollution exposure and health
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) co-organized a symposium on “Air Pollution Exposure and Health” at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina on Septem...
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Biologically based modeling of multimedia, multipathway, multiroute population exposures to arsenic
This article presents an integrated, biologically based, source-to-dose assessment framework for modeling multimedia/multipathway/multiroute exposures to arsenic. Case studies demonstrating this framework are ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Modeling Methodology to Support Evaluation of Public Health Impacts on Air Pollution Reduction Programs
Environmental public health protection requires a good understanding of the types and locations of pollutant emissions of health concern and their relationship to environmental public health indicators. Theref...
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Modeling population exposures to outdoor sources of hazardous air pollutants
Accurate assessment of human exposures is an important part of environmental health effects research. However, most air pollution epidemiology studies rely upon imperfect surrogates of personal exposures, such...
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Design and sampling methodology for a large study of preschool children's aggregate exposures to persistent organic pollutants in their everyday environments
Young children, because of their immaturity and their rapid development compared to adults, are considered to be more susceptible to the health effects of environmental pollutants. They are also more likely to...
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A population exposure model for particulate matter: case study results for PM2.5 in Philadelphia, PA
A population exposure model for particulate matter (PM), called the Stochastic Human Exposure and Dose Simulation (SHEDS-PM) model, has been developed and applied in a case study of daily PM2.5 exposures for the ...
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Modeled estimates of chlorpyrifos exposure and dose for the Minnesota and Arizona NHEXAS populations
This paper presents a probabilistic, multimedia, multipathway exposure model and assessment for chlorpyrifos developed as part of the National Human Exposure Assessment Survey (NHEXAS). The model was construct...
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Modeling of Pollutant Transport and Removal during a Regional Sulfate Episode
As part of a multidisciplinary study performed for the National Commission on Air Quality, the phenomena of atmospheric transport and the removal of SO2 and SO4 = during a major regional sulfate episo...
