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Research Perspectives on Air Pollution and Human Health in Asia

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Air Pollution in Eastern Asia: An Integrated Perspective

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The scientific challenges abound to better assess the relationship between air pollutants, their biological effects on the human health and the responses of the exposed populations. In Asia, atmospheric chemists have to consider much higher levels of air pollution but also an original aerosol chemical composition which results from multiple sources, and specific climate and meteorological patterns. As for health researchers, the ways of exposure and the biological responses differ from what have been observed in other regions of the world, and should lead to new air pollution dose-response functions particular to Asia. Such challenges create opportunities to bring together chemists, biologists and epidemiologists in order to go beyond the management of current interdisciplinary projects, by creating integrated research units where original cross methodologies and joint technical approaches could be efficiently developed.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Aérologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 14 avenue Edouard-Belin, F31400, Toulouse, France

    Benjamin Guinot

  2. UPMC Université Paris 06, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique (IPLESP UMRS 1136), Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory diseases department (EPAR), Medical School Saint-Antoine, Sorbonne Universités, F75012, Paris, France

    Isabella Annesi-Maesano

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Guinot, B., Annesi-Maesano, I. (2017). Research Perspectives on Air Pollution and Human Health in Asia. In: Bouarar, I., Wang, X., Brasseur, G. (eds) Air Pollution in Eastern Asia: An Integrated Perspective. ISSI Scientific Report Series, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59489-7_24

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