Individual exposure estimates may be erroneous when spatiotemporal variability of air pollution and human mobility are ignored

Health and Place

Volumn 43, Issue , 2017, Pages 85-94

  Park, Yoo Min ^a   Kwan, Mei Po ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

3D geovisualization; Air pollution exposure; Environmental health; Human mobility; The uncertain geographic context problem (UGCoP)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HEALTH RISK; MOBILITY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN MOBILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIETY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAVEL; UTILIZATION;

AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAVEL;

EID: 85000774257     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: 18732054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.10.002     Document Type: Article

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