Predictors of personal exposure to black carbon among women in southern semi-rural Mozambique.
Black carbon
Household air pollution
Kerosene
Personal monitoring
Sub-Saharan Africa
Journal
Environment international
ISSN: 1873-6750
Titre abrégé: Environ Int
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 7807270
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 2019
10 2019
Historique:
received:
19
12
2018
revised:
06
05
2019
accepted:
23
06
2019
pubmed:
14
7
2019
medline:
19
2
2020
entrez:
14
7
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest proportion of people using unclean fuels for household energy, which can result in products of incomplete combustion that are damaging for health. Black carbon (BC) is a useful marker of inefficient combustion-related particles; however, ambient air quality data and temporal patterns of personal exposure to BC in SSA are scarce. We measured ambient elemental carbon (EC), comparable to BC, and personal exposure to BC in women of childbearing age from a semi-rural area of southern Mozambique. We measured ambient EC over one year (2014-2015) using a high-volume sampler and an off-line thermo-optical-transmission method. We simultaneously measured 5-min resolved 24-h personal BC using a portable MicroAeth (AE51) in 202 women. We used backwards stepwise linear regression to identify predictors of log-transformed 24-h mean and peak (90th percentile) personal BC exposure. We analyzed data from 187 non-smoking women aged 16-46 years. While daily mean ambient EC reached moderate levels (0.9 μg/m
Identifiants
pubmed: 31301586
pii: S0160-4120(18)33042-3
doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.104962
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Air Pollutants
0
Particulate Matter
0
Soot
0
Carbon
7440-44-0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
104962Informations de copyright
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