• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• 제30권
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• pp.10.1-10.14
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• 2015

Recent cohort studies have relied on exposure prediction models to estimate individual-level air pollution concentrations because individual air pollution measurements are not available for cohort locations. For such prediction models, geographic variables related to pollution sources are important inputs. We demonstrated the computation process of geographic variables mostly recorded in 2010 at regulatory air pollution monitoring sites in South Korea. On the basis of previous studies, we finalized a list of 313 geographic variables related to air pollution sources in eight categories including traffic, demographic characteristics, land use, transportation facilities, physical geography, emissions, vegetation, and altitude. We then obtained data from different sources such as the Statistics Geographic Information Service and Korean Transport Database. After integrating all available data to a single database by matching coordinate systems and converting non-spatial data to spatial data, we computed geographic variables at 294 regulatory monitoring sites in South Korea. The data integration and variable computation were performed by using ArcGIS version 10.2 (ESRI Inc., Redlands, CA, USA). For traffic, we computed the distances to the nearest roads and the sums of road lengths within different sizes of circular buffers. In addition, we calculated the numbers of residents, households, housing buildings, companies, and employees within the buffers. The percentages of areas for different types of land use compared to total areas were calculated within the buffers. For transportation facilities and physical geography, we computed the distances to the closest public transportation depots and the boundary lines. The vegetation index and altitude were estimated at a given location by using satellite data. The summary statistics of geographic variables in Seoul across monitoring sites showed different patterns between urban background and urban roadside sites. This study provided practical knowledge on the computation process of geographic variables in South Korea, which will improve air pollution prediction models and contribute to subsequent health analyses.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.140-147
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• 2018

Objectives: Environmental pollution is a negative consequence of the development process, and many countries are grappling with this phenomenon. As a developing country, Iran is not exempt from this rule, and Iran pays huge expenditures for the consequences of pollution. The aim of this study was to analyze the long- and short-run impact of air pollution, along with other health indicators, on private and public health expenditures. Methods: This study was an applied and developmental study. Autoregressive distributed lag estimating models were used for the period of 1972 to 2014. In order to determine the co-integration between health expenditures and the infant mortality rate, fertility rate, per capita income, and pollution, we used the Wald test in Microfit version 4.1. We then used Eviews version 8 to evaluate the stationarity of the variables and to estimate the long- and short-run relationships. Results: Long-run air pollution had a positive and significant effect on health expenditures, so that a 1.00% increase in the index of carbon dioxide led to an increase of 3.32% and 1.16% in public and private health expenditures, respectively. Air pollution also had a greater impact on health expenditures in the long term than in the short term. Conclusions: The findings of this study indicate that among the factors affecting health expenditures, environmental quality and contaminants played the most important role. Therefore, in order to reduce the financial burden of health expenditures in Iran, it is essential to reduce air pollution by enacting and implementing laws that protect the environment.

• Advances in environmental research
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.277-288
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• 2012

This study investigated exposure to air pollutants in rooms in low-income houses at Shomolu (R1), Mafoluku (R2) and Mushin (R3) in Lagos state. The concentrations of most measured exceeded limits of Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) for indoor air quality. Air quality index (AQI) in rooms studied was unhealthy for sensitive people in terms of CO, unhealthy in terms of $SO_2$ and very unhealthy in terms of $NO_2$ while moderate air quality was obtained in terms of $PM_{10}$ in most rooms. High concentrations of carbontetrachloride, formaldehyde and xylene measured could have been responsible for some of the health complaints of the occupants. Factor analysis shows that cooking with kerosene, use of gasoline generator and insecticide were the major contributors to indoor air pollution in these rooms. Therefore, there is need to urgently tackle poverty as all affected by these pollutants were poor who live in substandard houses without kitchens.

• 한국경제지리학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.143-156
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• 2011

최근 심각한 사회문제가 되고 있는 도시환경 문제 해결을 위해, 이를 효과적으로 관리하는 방안이 활발히 연구되고 있다. 환경 지표는 환경을 정량적인 지표로 측정하는 수단으로서, 환경 정책 및 의사결정의 근거로 활용하고 있다. 이 중 대기질 지표는 대기오염 지수를 통해 공기가 얼마나 오염되어 있는지를 표준화하는 지수이다. 우리나라는 미국의 AQI를 국내 대기환경 기준으로 변환한 AEI를 개발하여 대기오염의 정도를 측정한다. 이에 본 연구는 우리나라의 대표 도시인 서울을 연구 지역으로 선정하고, 대기오염 지수와 도시공간구조 특성인 행정 동별 토지이용 및 교통 자료간의 상관성 분석을 시행하였다. 이를 위해 서울시 대기오염 자동 측정망을 통해 측정된 2007년 대기오염 측정 자료를 바탕으로 공간내삽법인 IDW에 의해 전체적인 경향면을 생성하고, 회귀분석, GWR 그리고 대기오염 물질별 시계열적 농도 변화를 분석하였다.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.25-32
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• 1985

To examine the effects of air pollution on Pinus thunbergii growing around Yocheon Industrial Complex, evaluation of visible injury based on Injury Index and chemical analysis of water-soluble sulfur and fluorine contents in needles were carried out on 30 sampling sites. Histological responses of needles were also investigated on the necrotic needle tissues. Not only Injury Index but water-soluble sulfur and fluorine contents were higher at all sites than those at control site, and showed significant correlationship among them. Especially, they were rather higher in the vicinity of air pollutants sources. Water-soluble sulfur contents were positively correlated with average atomospheric $SO_3$ concentrations. Microscopic examination of necrotic needle tissues showed that mesophyll cells were collapsed with hypertrophy and collapse of transfusion cells.

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.83-117
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• 2004

본 연구는 수도권지역 대기오염 측정망의 오염물질별 연평균 오염도 측정치를 이용하여 최근 10년간의 수도권내 대기오염도의 공간적 분포 및 그 변화를 분석하였다. 분석을 위해 커널확률밀도함수를 추정하고, 또한 지니계수와 엔트로피계열의 불평등지수를 계측하였으며, 분석기간중 오염도의 공간적 분포 변화에 대한 통계적 검정을 실시하였다. 분석결과 최근 10년간 수도권 지역의 $SO_2$, $NO_2$, $O_3$와 CO 등 대기오염물질 오염도의 지역격차는 대체로 일정한 수준을 유지하거나 아니면 완화되는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 순위상관 분석 결과 분석기간 중 오염물질의 공간적 분포에 상당한 정도의 동태적 변화가 있었던 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국대기환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국대기환경학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.329-330
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• 2010

• 한국대기환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국대기환경학회 1999년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.309-311
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• 1999

• 한국대기환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국대기환경학회 1999년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.295-296
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• 1999

경제발전과 건축기술의 진보로 인해 건물이 고층화, 대형화되어 실내공간을 이용하는 시간이 늘어나면서 실내공기 오염문제가 대두되고 있다. 특히, 사람은 하루 중 80％ 이상의 시간을 실내에서 생활하고 있으므로 실내공기오염이 인체에 미치는 영향은 매우 중요하다고 할 수 있다. (중략)

• 한국대기환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국대기환경학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.371-372
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• 2008