Dear Colleagues,

Air pollution is now considered to be the world’s largest environmental health threat. It is estimated that ~90% of the world’s population lives in areas with air quality levels exceeding the World Health Organization (WHO) limits, especially in developing countries. According to the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 study, air pollution exposure accounts for 4.9 million deaths and 147 million disability-adjusted life years. Exposure to air pollution introduces systematic inflammation and oxidative stress and can lead to a complex cascade of dysfunction in multiple organ systems, including cardiopulmonary diseases, diabetes, and more recently dementia and mental health problems.

Urban areas are particularly prone to high concentrations of air pollution, high human exposure of air pollution, and more hazardous of pollutant components, due to built environment characteristics, high population density, and anthropogenic activities that generate air pollution. Globally, rapid urbanization is increasing pollution levels, and populations are experiencing adverse health effects across the lifespan. Policies that mitigate air pollution exposure in urban environments may have opportunities to provide correspondingly huge health benefits in large dense populations.

We invite you to consider submitting your research for publication in this Special Issue of the journal, focusing on “Urban Air Pollution Exposure and Related Diseases”. The aim of this Special Issue is to elucidate the impacts of air pollution exposure on health in urban areas. Relevant current issues include but are not limited to methods for estimating air pollution exposures, assessment of the impacts of mixtures of air pollution on health, the impacts of policies to mitigate air pollution levels on health outcomes, and health effects of air pollution across the lifespan.

• Low- and middle-income countries
• PM components and sources
• Exposure assessment model
• Assessment of health benefits of air pollution reduction policies

Dr. Amruta Nori-Sarma
Dr. Shengzhi Sun
Dr. Jinjun Ran
Guest Editors

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• air pollution
• particulate matter
• health effects
• low- and middle-income countries
• exposure