Lovrić Mario, Gajski Goran, Fernández-Agüera Jessica, Pöhlker Mira, Gursch Heimo, Borg Alex, Switters Jon, Mureddu Francesco
The Lisbon Council, Brussels, Belgium.
Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia.
Biofactors. 2025 Jan-Feb;51(1):e2126. doi: 10.1002/biof.2126. Epub 2024 Oct 1.
Indoor air pollution is a recognized emerging threat, claiming millions of lives annually. People are constantly exposed to ambient and indoor air pollution. The latest research shows that people in developed countries spend up to 90% of their time indoors and almost 70% at home. Although impaired Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) represents a significant health risk, it affects people differently, and specific populations are more vulnerable: children, the elderly, and people with respiratory illnesses are more sensitive to these environmental risks. Despite rather extensive research on IAQ, most of the current understanding about the subject, which includes pollution sources, indoor-outdoor relationships, and ventilation/filtration, is still quite limited, mainly because air quality monitoring in the EU is primarily focused on ambient air quality and regulatory requirements are lacking for indoor environments. Therefore, the EDIAQI project aims to improve guidelines and awareness for advancing the IAQ in Europe and beyond by allowing user-friendly access to information about indoor air pollution exposures, sources, and related risk factors. The solution proposed with EDIAQI consists of conducting a characterization of sources and routes of exposure and dispersion of chemical, biological, and emerging indoor air pollution in multiple cities in the EU. The project will deploy cost-effective/user-friendly monitoring solutions to create new knowledge on sources, exposure routes, and indoor multipollutant body burdens. The EDIAQI project brings together 18 organizations from 11 different European countries that provide interdisciplinary skills and expertise in various fields, including environmental science and technology, medicine, and toxicology, as well as policy design and public engagement.
室内空气污染是一种公认的新出现的威胁，每年夺走数百万人的生命。人们不断暴露于室外和室内空气污染中。最新研究表明，发达国家的人们高达90%的时间待在室内，近70%的时间待在家里。尽管室内空气质量（IAQ）受损代表着重大的健康风险，但它对人们的影响因人而异，特定人群更为脆弱：儿童、老年人以及患有呼吸系统疾病的人对这些环境风险更为敏感。尽管对室内空气质量进行了相当广泛的研究，但目前对该主题的大多数理解，包括污染源、室内外关系以及通风/过滤，仍然相当有限，主要是因为欧盟的空气质量监测主要集中在室外空气质量，而缺乏对室内环境的监管要求。因此，EDIAQI项目旨在通过让用户方便地获取有关室内空气污染暴露、来源及相关风险因素的信息，来改进欧洲及其他地区提升室内空气质量的指南并提高人们的认识。EDIAQI项目提出的解决方案包括对欧盟多个城市中化学、生物和新出现的室内空气污染的来源、暴露途径以及扩散进行特征描述。该项目将部署具有成本效益且用户友好的监测解决方案，以获取有关污染源、暴露途径和室内多种污染物人体负荷的新知识。EDIAQI项目汇集了来自11个不同欧洲国家的18个组织，这些组织在环境科学与技术、医学、毒理学以及政策设计和公众参与等各个领域提供跨学科技能和专业知识。
