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Title: | Concern over health effects of air pollution is associated to NO2 in seven European cities | Authors: | DONS, Evi LAEREMANS, Michelle Anaya-Boig, Esther Avila-Palencia, Ione Brand, Christian de Nazelle, Audrey Gaupp-Berghausen, Mailin Gotschi, Thomas Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark Orjuela, Juan Pablo Raser, Elisabeth Standaert, Arnout INT PANIS, Luc |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Publisher: | SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG | Source: | AIR QUALITY ATMOSPHERE AND HEALTH, 11(5), p. 591-599 | Abstract: | Subjective perception of air pollution is important and can have impacts on health in its own rights, can lead to protective behaviour, or it can be leveraged to engage citizens and stakeholders in support of cleaner air policies. The aim of the current analysis was to examine associations between level of concern over health effects of air pollution and personal and environmental factors. In seven European cities, 7622 adult participants were recruited to complete an online questionnaire on travel and physical activity behaviour, perceptions and attitudes on active mobility and the environment, and sociodemographics. Air pollution at the home address was determined using Europe-wide PM2.5 and NO2 land use regression models. Mixed effects logistic regression was used to model concern over air pollution (worried versus not worried; city as random effect). Fifty-eight percent of participants were worried over health effects of air pollution with large differences across cities (Antwerp 78%, Barcelona 81%, London 64%, Orebro 11%, Rome 72%, Vienna 43%, Zurich 33%). Linking mean modelled air pollution to mean level of concern per city gave a good correlation for NO2 (r(2) = 0.75), and a lower correlation for PM2.5 (r(2) = 0.49). In the regression model, sex, having children in the household, levels of physical activity, and NO2 at the home address were significantly linked to individual concern over health effects of air pollution. We found that NO2 but not PM2.5 at the home address was associated with concern over health effects of air pollution. | Notes: | [Dons, Evi] Hasselt Univ, Ctr Environm Sci, Martelarenlaan 42, B-3500 Hasselt, Belgium. [Dons, Evi; Laeremans, Michelle; Standaert, Arnout; Int Panis, Luc] Flemish Inst Technol Res VITO, Boeretang 200, B-2400 Mol, Belgium. [Laeremans, Michelle; Int Panis, Luc] Hasselt Univ, Transportat Res Inst IMOB, Wetenschapspk 5-6, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. [Anaya-Boig, Esther; de Nazelle, Audrey; Orjuela, Juan Pablo] Imperial Coll London, Ctr Environm Policy, Exhibition Rd,South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, England. [Avila-Palencia, Ione; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark] ISGlobal, C Dr Aiguader 88, Barcelona 08003, Spain. [Avila-Palencia, Ione; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark] UPF, C Dr Aiguader 88, Barcelona 08003, Spain. [Avila-Palencia, Ione; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark] CIBER Epidemiol & Salud Publ CIBERESP, C Monforte Lemos 3-5, Madrid 28029, Spain. [Brand, Christian] Univ Oxford, Transport Studies Unit, South Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3QY, England. [Gaupp-Berghausen, Mailin; Raser, Elisabeth] Univ Nat Resources & Life Sci Vienna, Inst Transport Studies, Peter Jordan Str 82, A-1190 Vienna, Austria. [Gotschi, Thomas] Univ Zurich, Epidemiol Biostat & Prevent Inst, Phys Act & Hlth Unit, Seilergraben 49, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland. | Keywords: | Air pollution; Nitrogen dioxide; Particulate matter; Annoyance; Risk perception;Air pollution; Nitrogen dioxide; Particulate matter; Annoyance; Risk perception | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/27441 | ISSN: | 1873-9318 | e-ISSN: | 1873-9326 | DOI: | 10.1007/s11869-018-0567-3 | ISI #: | 000435421100010 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2019 |
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