Connecting Air Quality with Emotional Well-Being and Neighborhood Infrastructure in a US City.

ABSTRACT: Cities in the United States have announced initiatives to become more sustainable, healthy, resilient, livable, and environmentally friendly. However, indicators for measuring all outcomes related to these targets and the synergies between them have not been well defined or studied. One such relationship is the linkage between air quality with emotional well-being (EWB) and neighborhood infrastructure. Here, regulatory monitoring, low-cost sensors (LCSs), and air quality modeling were combined to assess exposures to PM2.5 and traffic-related NOx in 6 Minneapolis, MN, neighborhoods of varying infrastructure parameters (median household income, urban vs suburban, and access to light rail). Residents of the study neighborhoods concurrently took real-time EWB assessments using a smart phone ap

SUBMITTER: Lal RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7218333 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature