AIR QUALITY: Integration of existing approaches toward (bio)surveillance in relation with indoor and outdoor air quality.

Exposure to air pollution (both outdoor and indoor) has many potential adverse effects on human health. In order to develop appropriate strategies to manage public health effects of indoor and outdoor air quality, both aspects should be considered in an integrated approach. Therefore surveillance protocols, collected results and processing of data should be appropriate and managed with harmonized methodologies in order to ensure comparability and enable potential integration. These objectives will be achieved by an active interdisciplinaty dialogue to identify existing methods, data, information and (bio)surveillance programs in relation with indoor air, outdoor air, health effects (cardiorespiratory disease), human biomonitoring and time acitivity patterns. Also, strengths, weaknesses, gaps and further perspectives will be identified. A dialogue between scientists and policy makers will be activated.

Keywords:Indoor and outdoor air quality, (cardio)respiratory health effects, Human biomonitoring, Time activity patterns

Disciplines:Public health care, Public health sciences, Public health services