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- Title
Assessment of Daily Personal PM2.5 Exposure Level According to Four Major Activities among Children.
- Authors
Woo, Jiyoung; Rudasingwa, Guillaume; Kim, Sungroul
- Abstract
Particulate matters less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter (PM2.5), whose concentration has increased in Korea, has a considerable impact on health. From a risk management point of view, there has been interest in understanding the variations in real-time PM2.5 concentrations per activity in different microenvironments. We analyzed personal monitoring data collected from 15 children aged 6 to 11 years engaged in different activities such as commuting in a car, visiting a commercial building, attending an education institute, and resting inside home from October 2018 to March 2019. The fraction of daily mean exposure duration per activity was 72.7 ± 18.7% for resting inside home, 27.2 ± 14.4% for attending an education institute, and 11.5 ± 9.6% and 5.3 ± 5.9% for visiting a commercial building, commuting in a car, respectively. Daily median (interquartile range) PM2.5 exposure amount was 88.9 (55.9–159.7) μg in houses and that in education buildings was 43.3 (22.9–55.6) μg. Real-time PM2.5 exposure levels varied by person and time of day (p-value < 0.05). This study demonstrated that our real-time personal monitoring and data analysis methodologies were effective in detecting polluted microenvironments and provided a potential person-specific management strategy to reduce a person's exposure level to PM2.5.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; PARTICULATE matter; PERSONALLY identifiable information; DATA analysis; RISK management in business
- Publication
Applied Sciences (2076-3417), 2020, Vol 10, Issue 1, p159
- ISSN
2076-3417
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/app10010159