School children's exposure to indoor fine particulate matter

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dc.contributor.authorCooper, Nathan
dc.contributor.authorGreen, Donna
dc.contributor.authorGuo, Yuming
dc.contributor.authorVardoulakis, Sotiris
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-02T03:38:08Z
dc.date.available2022-03-02T03:38:08Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.updated2020-12-20T07:20:44Z
dc.description.abstractAssessing the exposure of children to indoor fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is important because children spend about one third of their day inside early learning microenvironments. Children are more vulnerable to air pollution due to a number of physiological reasons and, therefore, it is crucial to explore the factors that affect indoor (and outdoor) PM2.5 levels in these locations to determine appropriate measures to reduce children's exposure to air pollution. To provide health policy guidance about how to reduce indoor air pollution in schools, this study systematically reviewed the associations between environmental factors and classroom characteristics with indoor PM2.5 concentrations or indoor/outdoor (I/O) PM2.5 in early learning microenvironments using a PRISMA framework. The systematic literature search reviewed studies that: monitored indoor PM2.5 levels in at least one early learning microenvironment; measured outdoor PM2.5 levels; and, analysed the influence of relevant factors on PM2.5 concentrations or I/O relationships. From an initial search of 1282 results, 66 studies were included in the final review. Overall, these studies showed a lack of robust statistical analyses being performed, inconsistent application of methodological approaches and considerable variation in results. Consequently, these studies demonstrated weak evidence of significant and consistent associations between seasonal, meteorological, activity-based, site-based and ventilation rate variables with indoor PM2.5 concentrations. Further large-scale and statistically robust analyses are needed to accurately quantify these associations, with particular attention needed as to how associations between influential variables and indoor PM2.5 concentrations or I/O relationships change with seasonal and other factors, and whether these associations vary spatially. Once identified, these factors and relationships could be used to inform policy decisions that would enable better protection of the health of children in early learning microenvironments from chronic and acute exposure to air pollution.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipPartial support for NC’s salary was provided by the Digital Grid Futures Institute, UNSW, Sydney, under a cross disciplinary fund schemeen_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1748-9326en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/261626
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.provenanceOriginal content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.en_AU
dc.publisherIOP Publishingen_AU
dc.rights© 2020 The Authorsen_AU
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons Attribution licenceen_AU
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_AU
dc.sourceEnvironmental Research Lettersen_AU
dc.subjectindoor air qualityen_AU
dc.subjectchildren,en_AU
dc.subjectearly learning,en_AU
dc.subjectparticulate matteren_AU
dc.subjectindoor/outdoor pollutionen_AU
dc.titleSchool children's exposure to indoor fine particulate matteren_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue11en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage13en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationCooper, Nathan , Climate Change Research Centre and Digital Grid Futures Institute, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, University of New South Walesen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationGreen, Donna , University of New South Walesen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationGuo, Yuming, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicineen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationVardoulakis, Sotiris, College of Health and Medicine, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu5094038@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidVardoulakis, Sotiris, u5094038en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor111708 - Health and Community Servicesen_AU
local.identifier.absseo920501 - Child Healthen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB14583en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume15en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1088/1748-9326/abbafeen_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://iopscience.iop.org/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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