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ReviewCurrent environmental health reports2026

Advancing Long-Term Outdoor Air Pollution Exposure Assessment for Health Studies: Lessons from a Multinational Research Initiative.

Hanna Boogaard, Dan L Crouse, Allison P Patton, Ellen Mantus, Susanne Breitner-Busch, Jaime E Hart, Anna Oudin, Shu Yang, Jeffrey D Yanosky, John Volckens and 1 more

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Review in Current environmental health reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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11 authors.

Hanna BoogaardHealth Effects Institute, Boston, MA, USA. jboogaard@healtheffects.org.
Dan L CrouseHealth Effects Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
Allison P PattonHealth Effects Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
Ellen MantusHealth Effects Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
Susanne Breitner-BuschInstitute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
Jaime E HartChanning Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Anna OudinDivision of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Shu YangDepartment of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
Jeffrey D YanoskyDepartment of Public Health Sciences, College of Medicine, The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, USA.
John VolckensDepartment of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Jana B MilfordDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThe Health Effects Institute recently completed an extensive research initiative to investigate novel approaches to improve assessment of long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution for health studies in North America and Europe. This overview synthesizes the key results, strengths, and limitations, along with other key research and future research needs. RECENT

findingsExposures predicted from the various models, including those accounting for daily mobility patterns and outdoor-indoor infiltration rates, generally resulted in moderately to highly correlated exposure estimates (correlation > 0.7). Health effect estimates associated with the alternative exposures were similar, albeit with some notable differences in the magnitude - but not the direction - of the associations. This research initiative can inform decisions about estimating air pollution exposure in epidemiological studies, as investigators balance concerns about bias, efficiency, and resource needs. Future work is needed to replicate findings in other studies and regions. Other areas of future work include generating representative validation data for long-term exposure estimates, propagating exposure measurement error more fully into health effect estimates and improving understanding of the influence of indoor environments.

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Air PollutantsAir PollutionEnvironmental ExposureEnvironmental MonitoringEuropeHumansNorth AmericaAir PollutantsAir pollutionEpidemiologyExposure assessmentHealthLong-term exposure

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PMID42671733
PMCPMC13529910

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