Air Pollution Monitoring Design for Epidemiological Application in a Densely Populated City.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Many studies have reported the association between air pollution and human health based on regulatory air pollution monitoring data. However, because regulatory monitoring networks were not designed for epidemiological studies, the collected data may not provide sufficient spatial contrasts for assessing such associations. Our goal was to develop a monitoring design supplementary to the regulatory monitoring network in Seoul, Korea. This design focused on the selection of 20 new monitoring sites to represent the variability in PM2.5 across people's residences for cohort studies. Methods: We obtained hourly measurements of PM2.5 at 37 regulatory monitoring sites in 2010 in Seoul, and computed the annual average at each site. We also computed 313 geographic variables representi

SUBMITTER: Min KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5551124 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature