Schools' air quality monitoring for health and education: Methods and protocols of the SAMHE initiative and project
Schools' air quality monitoring for health and education: Methods and protocols of the SAMHE initiative and project
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10.1016/j.dibe.2023.100266
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发表时间：
2023-12-02
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8.2
通讯作者：
Burridge，Henry C.
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Chatzidiakou，Lia;Archer，Rhys;Burridge，Henry C.
背景儿童在学校花费大量时间，这使得学校环境成为空气质量暴露的潜在重要贡献者。目的SAMHE倡议有两个目标：1)开发和测试一个定制的公民科学框架，用于以前所未有的规模收集教室环境和室内空气质量数据，以及能够丰富分析的背景数据；2)同时使用这些方法来提高社区对他们暴露在学校环境中的空气污染的认识。方法为了实现这一双重目标，SAMHE项目被发起，在学校教室部署了2000多个 000多个低成本的室内空气质量监测仪。与学校合作设计了一款Web App，以支持收集大型综合数据集(包括校舍特征、运营和行为模式)，并使学生和教师能够与在其学校收集的数据进行交互。结果和展望我们展示了与20多所学校合作设计的界面和视觉效果，并在120多所学校进行了测试。在SAMHE启动周的一周内，已有537所学校注册加入该项目，在撰写本报告时(仅七周后)，这一数字已增长到约800所学校。这突显了这一新颖倡议的潜力，它将在国家乃至国际层面上改变收集室内空气质量数据集的方式，同时使学校能够更好地管理室内环境，并使学生和教师能够降低环境健康风险。
BackgroundChildren spend significant amounts of time at school, making the school environment a potentially important contributor to air quality exposure.AimThe SAMHE initiative has a dual aim: 1) to develop and test a bespoke citizen science framework for collecting environment and indoor air quality data in classrooms, alongside contextual data capable of enriching analysis, at an unprecedented scale; and, 2) to simultaneously use these methods to raise awareness among communities regarding their exposure to air pollution in the school environment.MethodologyTo achieve this dual aim, the SAMHE project was initiated to deploy more than 2 000 low-cost indoor air quality monitors in school classrooms. A Web App has been co-designed with schools to support collecting a large comprehensive dataset (including school buildings characteristics, operation, and behavioural patterns) and to enable students and teachers to interact with the data gathered in their school.Results and outlookWe present the design of the interface and visuals that have been co-designed with 20+ schools and tested with 120+ schools. Within one week of the SAMHE launch week, 537 schools had registered to join the project, and at the time of writing (just seven weeks later) this number had grown to around 800 schools. This highlights the potential for this novel initiative to provide a step-change in the way that indoor air quality datasets are gathered at a national and, potentially, international level while simultaneously enabling schools to better manage their indoor environment and empowering students and teachers to reduce their environmental health risks.