Estimating personal exposures to household air pollution and plastic garbage burning among adolescent girls in Jalapa, Guatemala.
Biomonitoring
Endocrine disrupting compounds
Exposure assessment
Household air pollution
Plastic pollution
Journal
Chemosphere
ISSN: 1879-1298
Titre abrégé: Chemosphere
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0320657
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jan 2024
Jan 2024
Historique:
received:
06
09
2023
revised:
10
11
2023
accepted:
11
11
2023
pmc-release:
01
01
2024
medline:
5
12
2023
pubmed:
20
11
2023
entrez:
19
11
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Waste collection services are uncommon in rural areas of low-resource countries, causing waste accumulation and subsequent dumping and burning of garbage. Air pollution from household garbage burning, including plastics, has been observed in Jalapa, Guatemala in addition to household air pollution (HAP) from cooking. Adolescent girls often help with these cooking and household tasks, but little is known about their exposures. We characterized 24-h exposures to HAP and household garbage burning in adolescent girls by measuring fine particulate matter (PM
Identifiants
pubmed: 37981014
pii: S0045-6535(23)02975-2
doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.140705
pmc: PMC10714129
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Particulate Matter
0
Soot
0
Biomarkers
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
140705Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.