An Investigation into Which Methods Best Explain Children's Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution.

ABSTRACT: There have been several methods employed to quantify individual-level exposure to ambient traffic-related air pollutants (TRAP). These include an individual's residential proximity to roads, measurement of individual pollutants as surrogates or markers, as well as dispersion and land use regression (LUR) models. Hopanes are organic compounds still commonly found on ambient particulate matter and are specific markers of combustion engine primary emissions, but they have not been previously used in personal exposure studies. In this paper, children's personal exposures to TRAP were evaluated using hopanes determined from weekly integrated filters collected as part of a personal exposure study in Windsor, Canada. These hopane measurements were used to evaluate how well other commonly used pro

SUBMITTER: Van Ryswyk K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9229918 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature