{"id":4202,"date":"2016-10-03T09:06:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T07:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/2016\/10\/svevestov-leder-til-helseskader\/"},"modified":"2016-10-03T09:06:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T07:06:58","slug":"particulate-matter-affect-human-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/2016\/10\/particulate-matter-affect-human-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Particulate matter affect human health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior scientist Cristina de Brito Beir\u00e3o Guerreiro has determined this in her doctoral dissertation, &#8220;A novel combination of methods for air quality management support with focus on particulate matter&#8221;. Her doctorate was completed at the Technical University of Gdansk on 21 September 2016.<\/p>\n<h2>BaP and lung cancer<\/h2>\n<p>In the study, household combustion was identified as a major emission sector of primary PM and benzo(a)pyrene\u00a0(BaP), and of increasing importance for PM and BaP concentrations in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Guerreiro\u2019s dissertation further estimated European population exposure to BaP and the related incidence in lung cancer, by combining measurements, dispersion modelling, and relevant auxiliary data. About 20 % of the European population was exposed to BaP annual mean concentrations above the target value (1\u00a0ng.m-3) in 2012 and only about 12 % of the European population live in areas with concentrations under the estimated reference level for acceptable risk (0.12\u00a0ng.m-3).<\/p>\n<h2>The Gothenburg Protocol not sufficient<\/h2>\n<p>Agriculture is the main emission sector of NH3, an important PM precursor leading to the formation of secondary inorganic aerosols (SIA). SIA accounts for about one third of PM10 and half of PM2.5 concentrations in regional background ambient air in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The model simulations, combined with measurement data, in this study show that the emission reductions agreed under the revised Gothenburg Protocol (GP) will not be sufficient to achieve compliance with PM standards in Europe in 2020; hence further European measures should be considered. A further reduction of 30% of NH3 agriculture emissions is achievable by the implementation of currently available mitigation measures. Such a reduction would lead to important reductions in PM2.5 levels, reducing premature death due to air pollution in Europe.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1818\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1818 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/cristina_doktorgrad_2016_620.jpg\" alt=\"Cristina Guerreiro og bed\u00f8mmelseskomit\u00e9en\" width=\"620\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/cristina_doktorgrad_2016_620.jpg 620w, https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/cristina_doktorgrad_2016_620-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the left: Prof. Jan Hupka, Gdansk Technical University, Prof. Jozef Pacyna, NILU &amp; Gdansk Technical University, Cristina Guerreiro, Prof. Janusz GOLAS, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, Prof. Stanislaw HLAWICZKA, Cz\u0119stochowa University of Technology, Cz\u0119stochowa, Poland. Foto: private<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior scientist Cristina de Brito Beir\u00e3o Guerreiro has determined this in her doctoral dissertation, &#8220;A novel combination of methods for air quality management support with focus on particulate matter&#8221;. Her doctorate was completed at the Technical University of Gdansk on 21 September 2016. BaP and lung cancer In the study, household combustion was identified as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsarchive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4204,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions\/4204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nilu.gnist.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}