Particle Exposure Assessment for Community Elderly (PEACE) in Tianjin, China: Mass concentration relationships

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 77-84

  Zhou, Jian ^a   Han, Bin ^a   Bai, Zhipeng ^a,b   You, Yan ^a   Zhang, Jiefeng ^a   Niu, Can ^a   Liu, Yating ^a   Zhang, Nan ^a   He, Fei ^a   Ding, Xiao ^a   Lu, Bing ^a   Hu, Yandi ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Elderly population; Particulate matter; Personal cloud; Personal exposure; Time activity pattern

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; DATA SUPPORT; ELDERLY POPULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; INDOOR SOURCES; MASS CONCENTRATION; MONITORING SITES; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERSONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONAL EXPOSURES; POTENTIAL HEALTH; TIANJIN , CHINA; TIME-ACTIVITY PATTERN;

EXPOSURE CONTROLS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA);

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ELDERLY POPULATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLEANING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); COOKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SUMMER; WINTER;

CHINA; TIANJIN;

EID: 84856532321     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.12.020     Document Type: Article

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