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“What We Breathe Impacts Our Health: Improving Understanding of the Link between Air Pollution and Health”

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West, J. Jason, Cohen, Aaron, Dentener, Frank, Brunekreef, Bert, Zhu, Tong, Armstrong, Ben, Bell, Michelle L., Brauer, Michael +14 more·2016·Environmental Science & Technology

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Air pollution contributes to the premature deaths of millions of people each year around the world, and air quality problems are growing in many developing nations. While past policy efforts have succeeded in reducing particulate matter and trace gases in North America and Europe, adverse health effects are found at even these lower levels of air pollution. Future policy actions will benefit from improved understanding of the interactions and health effects of different chemical species and source categories. Achieving this new understanding requires air pollution scientists and engineers to work increasingly closely with health scientists. In particular, research is needed to better understand the chemical and physical properties of complex air pollutant mixtures, and to use new observations provided by satellites, advanced in situ measurement techniques, and distributed micro monitoring networks, coupled with models, to better characterize air pollution exposure for epidemiological and toxicological research, and to better quantify the effects of specific source sectors and mitigation strategies.

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West, J. J., Cohen, A., Dentener, F., Brunekreef, B., Zhu, T., Armstrong, B., Bell, M. L., Brauer, M., Carmichael, G., Costa, D. L., Dockery, D. W., Kleeman, M., Krzyzanowski, M., Künzli, N., Liousse, C., Lung, S.-C. C., Martin, R. V., Pöschl, U., Pope, C. A., Roberts, J. M., Russell, A. G., & Wiedinmyer, C.
Affiliations
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • Health Effects Institute (US)
  • European Commission (BE)
  • Utrecht University (NL)
  • Peking University (CN)
  • London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
  • Yale University (US)
  • University of British Columbia (CA)
  • University of Iowa (US)
  • Environmental Protection Agency (US)
  • Harvard University (US)
  • University of California, Davis (US)
  • Environmental Research Group, King’s College London, London SE1 9NH, United Kingdom
  • Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (CH)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
  • Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica (TW)
  • Dalhousie University (CA)
  • Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (DE)
  • Brigham Young University (US)
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
  • Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
  • NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (US)
Corresponding author
  • West, J. Jason
  • Cohen, Aaron
  • Dentener, Frank
  • Zhu, Tong
Venue
Environmental Science & Technology
Published
2016-05-05
Volume
50
Issue
10
Pages
4895-4904
ISSN
  • 0013-936X (ISSN-L)
  • 1520-5851
OpenAlex
W2321069189
Cited by
390
References
81
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 54 · 2020: 48 · 2019: 37 · 2018: 52 · 2017: 40 · 2016: 9
FWCI
28.95
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Environmental Science & Technology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • LSHTM Research Online (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) (acceptedVersion)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • NOAA Institutional Repository (submittedVersion)
  • Joint Research Centre (European Commission) (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
  • Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (1R21ES022600-01)
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
Keywords
air pollution health effects, air pollution exposure, particulate matter, trace gases, air pollutant mixtures, premature mortality, air quality policy, air pollution mitigation, satellite observations, toxicology, interdisciplinary research
MeSH terms
Air Pollutants, Air Pollution, Europe, Research, Particulate Matter

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