Timely AQHI air quality advisories with integrated risk reduction messages may lead to reduced morbidity associated with acute exposures to air pollution in individuals living with chronic diseases; the AQHI may also be useful in guiding public health and environmental health policy by accurately and consistently quantifying the health impacts of air pollution.
The objective of the work described in this paper is to develop a device to monitor air quality in indoor environments integrating three conductometric gas sensors based on thin film and nanostructured metal oxide semiconductors (SnO2, NiO and ZnO).
New research identifies the potential benefits in integrating air quality and climate change policy.
In this study we aim to integrate air quality measures from statewide monitoring stations with vital records to perform geospatial analyses testing the hypothesis that exposure to fine particles in the air (PM2.5) is associated with preterm birth risk.
In 2004 came another report, Measuring Environmental Hazards in the Childcare Industry: Pesticides, Lead, and Indoor Air Quality, prepared by environmental health and integrated pest management (IPM) advocate Phil Boise as a needs assessment for his GreenCare for Children program, a certification and training system.
Aclima, a San Francisco-based startup building Internet-connected air quality sensors has announced plans to integrate its mobile sensing platform into Google's global fleet of Street View vehicles.
Smart phone technology, integrated with low-cost air quality sensors, also has the potential to produce dynamic, temporally and spatially more precise exposure measures for the mass population.
With the support of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Nuevo León is now the first Mexican state to use the AIRNow–International air quality information management system an early step in integrating the systems used across North America to process and disseminate information on ambient air quality.
It uses complex modelling to integrate data from emission estimates, satellites and air quality sensors, and then map the results.
To address this knowledge gap, we used an indoor air quality modeling system to examine peak and time-integrated concentrations of fungal spores, environmental tobacco smoke, respiratory viruses, and cat allergen in indoor air associated with natural ventilation, portable air cleaners, and forced air ventilation equipped with conventional and high efficiency filtration systems.
