Evidence-driven indoor air quality improvement: An innovative and interdisciplinary approach to improving indoor air quality.

IF 5 3区 生物学 Q1 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
BioFactors Pub Date : 2024-10-01 DOI:10.1002/biof.2126
Mario Lovrić, Goran Gajski, Jessica Fernández-Agüera, Mira Pöhlker, Heimo Gursch, Alex Borg, Jon Switters, Francesco Mureddu
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Abstract

Indoor air pollution is a recognized emerging threat, claiming millions of lives annually. People are constantly exposed to ambient and indoor air pollution. The latest research shows that people in developed countries spend up to 90% of their time indoors and almost 70% at home. Although impaired IAQ represents a significant health risk, it affects people differently, and specific populations are more vulnerable: children, the elderly, and people with respiratory illnesses are more sensitive to these environmental risks. Despite rather extensive research on IAQ, most of the current understanding about the subject, which includes pollution sources, indoor-outdoor relationships, and ventilation/filtration, is still quite limited, mainly because air quality monitoring in the EU is primarily focused on ambient air quality and regulatory requirements are lacking for indoor environments. Therefore, the EDIAQI project aims to improve guidelines and awareness for advancing the IAQ in Europe and beyond by allowing user-friendly access to information about indoor air pollution exposures, sources, and related risk factors. The solution proposed with EDIAQI consists of conducting a characterization of sources and routes of exposure and dispersion of chemical, biological, and emerging indoor air pollution in multiple cities in the EU. The project will deploy cost-effective/user-friendly monitoring solutions to create new knowledge on sources, exposure routes, and indoor multipollutant body burdens. The EDIAQI project brings together 18 organizations from 11 different European countries that provide interdisciplinary skills and expertise in various fields, including environmental science and technology, medicine, and toxicology, as well as policy design and public engagement.

以证据为导向的室内空气质量改善:改善室内空气质量的跨学科创新方法。
室内空气污染是公认的新威胁,每年夺去数百万人的生命。人们经常暴露在环境和室内空气污染中。最新研究表明,发达国家的人们有高达 90% 的时间在室内度过,近 70% 的时间在家里度过。尽管室内空气质量受损对健康构成重大威胁,但它对人的影响却不尽相同,特定人群更容易受到影响:儿童、老人和呼吸系统疾病患者对这些环境风险更为敏感。尽管对室内空气质量的研究相当广泛,但目前对这一主题(包括污染源、室内与室外的关系以及通风/过滤)的了解仍然相当有限,这主要是因为欧盟的空气质量监测主要集中在环境空气质量上,而对室内环境缺乏监管要求。因此,EDIAQI 项目旨在通过方便用户获取有关室内空气污染暴露、来源和相关风险因素的信息,改进指导方针,提高人们对改善欧洲及其他地区室内空气质量的认识。EDIAQI 提出的解决方案包括对欧盟多个城市的化学、生物和新出现的室内空气污染的来源、暴露和扩散途径进行鉴定。该项目将采用具有成本效益/用户友好的监测解决方案,以创建有关污染源、暴露途径和室内多污染物人体负担的新知识。EDIAQI 项目汇集了来自 11 个不同欧洲国家的 18 个组织,它们在环境科学与技术、医学、毒理学以及政策设计和公众参与等不同领域提供跨学科技能和专业知识。
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BioFactors
BioFactors 生物-内分泌学与代谢
CiteScore
11.50
自引率
3.30%
发文量
96
审稿时长
6-12 weeks
期刊介绍: BioFactors, a journal of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, is devoted to the rapid publication of highly significant original research articles and reviews in experimental biology in health and disease. The word “biofactors” refers to the many compounds that regulate biological functions. Biological factors comprise many molecules produced or modified by living organisms, and present in many essential systems like the blood, the nervous or immunological systems. A non-exhaustive list of biological factors includes neurotransmitters, cytokines, chemokines, hormones, coagulation factors, transcription factors, signaling molecules, receptor ligands and many more. In the group of biofactors we can accommodate several classical molecules not synthetized in the body such as vitamins, micronutrients or essential trace elements. In keeping with this unified view of biochemistry, BioFactors publishes research dealing with the identification of new substances and the elucidation of their functions at the biophysical, biochemical, cellular and human level as well as studies revealing novel functions of already known biofactors. The journal encourages the submission of studies that use biochemistry, biophysics, cell and molecular biology and/or cell signaling approaches.
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