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DrHeatherWalton

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Senior Lecturer in Environmental Health
 
 
 
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Sir Michael Uren HubWhite City Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@book{Maiheu:2016,
author = {Maiheu, B and Williams, ML and Walton, HA and Janssen, S and Blyth, L and Velderman, N and Lefebvre, W and Vanhulzel, M and Beevers, SD},
publisher = {European Commission},
title = {Interim Report (D1) – v0.30 Service Contract on Improved Tools for Assessing NO2 Exposure (EU ambient air quality policy) Task 1 Interim Report: Review of Existing Methodologies},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - BOOK
AB  - EXECUTIVE SUMMARYIntroduction and BackgroundHealth impacts attributable to elevated concentrations of NO2 in the ambient air are of increasing societal concern: the European Environment Agency (EEA) estimates this to be in the order of more than 70.000 premature deaths across the EU-28 in the year 2012 alone (EEA, 2015). However, the current European Commission's Clean Air Policy Package does not include the health impacts of NO2 exposure mainly because of the current lack of a robust methodology or tool for the assessment of NO2 exposure, and the use of appropriate dose-response relationships.DG ENV has commissioned VITO (BE) and King's College London (UK) to propose methods and tools that are coherent with exposure metrics used when deriving the appropriate concentration-response relationships and compatible with currently used integrated assessment modelling (IAM) tools in the EU. The ultimate objective of the contract is to develop a (or refine an existing) module for improved NO2 exposure calculation for health impact assessment and cost benefit analysis.This report is a key deliverable in the project and provides an overview and analysis of the main methods and tools currently used for assessing human exposure to NO2. One of its main purposes was to serve as input for an expert consultation workshop which took place at the WHO offices in Bonn on the 17th May 2016. This version has been updated to include the key recommendations and conclusions from that workshop.NO2 Health Impact AssessmentA recent review of health effects by WHO in support of the European Commission 2013 Clean Air Policy Package, REVIHAAP (World Health Organization, 2013a) has concluded that evidence for the effects of long-term exposures to NO2 independent of those of PM has now strengthened. A subsequent exercise, HRAPIE, (World Health Organization, 2013b) recommended concentration-response functions (CRFs) relating mortality outcomes to long-term (annual mean) exposure to NO2 to be used in
AU  - Maiheu,B
AU  - Williams,ML
AU  - Walton,HA
AU  - Janssen,S
AU  - Blyth,L
AU  - Velderman,N
AU  - Lefebvre,W
AU  - Vanhulzel,M
AU  - Beevers,SD
PB  - European Commission
PY  - 2016///
TI  - Interim Report (D1) – v0.30 Service Contract on Improved Tools for Assessing NO2 Exposure (EU ambient air quality policy) Task 1 Interim Report: Review of Existing Methodologies
ER  -
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