Monitoring Environmental Exposures: Now It’s Personal

Monitoring Environmental Exposures: Now It’s Personal

Characterizing Exposomes: Tools for Measuring Personal Environmental Exposures

A Real-time Health Monitoring System for Evaluating Environmental Exposures

Several recent studies have addressed the topic of “exposome”, an approach for evaluating environmental exposures and their influence on human health conditions. Environmental exposures affecting human health range from a combination of factors like air pollution, tobacco smoke, and pollen, to climate, such as heat and humidity. With continued advances in information technology, and the worldwi...

Monitoring human occupational and environmental exposures to polycyclic aromatic compounds.

Many research groups have been carrying out studies to develop biomarkers of exposure to polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) and apply these for human biomonitoring. The main objectives of the use of biomarkers are to determine specific occupational and environmental exposures to monitor the effectiveness of exposure controls and prediction of the risk of disease. This article presents a revie...

Benefits of Mobile Phone Technology for Personal Environmental Monitoring

BACKGROUND Tracking individuals in environmental epidemiological studies using novel mobile phone technologies can provide valuable information on geolocation and physical activity, which will improve our understanding of environmental exposures. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess the performance of one of the least expensive mobile phones on the market to track people's trav...