Citizen-Science Technology for HealthyLiving at Home

公民科学技术促进健康家居生活

• 批准号: 9905210
• 负责人: THOMAS REILLY
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: ACCESS SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-24 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9905210
• 关键词: Affect; African American; Air; Air Pollutants; Air Pollution; Airborne Particulate Matter; Area; Assessment tool; Asthma; Awareness; Back; Bacteria; Biological Products; Carbon Black; Carcinogens; Cardiovascular Diseases; Chicago; Child; Chlorine; Chronic; Colorado; Communication; Cost Measures; Country; Data; Data Collection; Devices; Diabetes Mellitus; Diagnosis; Disease; Educational Materials; Endocrine Disruptors; Environmental Hazards; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental Pollution; Environmental Risk Factor; Exposure to; Feedback; Health; Home environment; Household; Human; Incidence; Individual; Inequality; Knowledge; Latina; Latino; Legal patent; Lung diseases; Malignant Neoplasms; Measurement; Measures; Metals; Methods; Microbe; Minority; Molds; Noise; Not Hispanic or Latino; Outcome; Particulate Matter; Performance; Phase; Poverty; Prevalence; Public Health; Radiation; Research; Residual state; Resources; Risk; Risk Factors; Sampling; Source; System; Technology; Testing; Validation; Water; Water Pollution; burden of illness; checkup examination; citizen science; contaminated drinking water; cost; design; environmental stressor; ethnic minority population; field study; hazard; improved; instrument; lead contamination; new technology; novel; off-patent; pollutant; portability; prevent; programs; racial and ethnic; racial minority; recruit; residence; rural underserved; sample collection; sensor; sensor technology; socioeconomic disadvantage; socioeconomics; stressor; success; tool; volatile organic compound; water quality

Project Summary Environmental risk factors are attributable to ~50% of the chronic respiratory disease burden in the U.S. and to ~10-15% of the burden from other non-communicable diseases (e.g., cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes). Exposure to environmental risk factors occurs through various forms of water and air pollution, with a smaller attribution to sources like noise, radiation, and physical hazards. Much of this exposure occurs at home, where people spend 70% of their lives. Yet, the notion that your home should be good for your health is often taken for granted. Homes can be significant sources of harmful pollutant exposure. Indoor levels of established and emerging pollutants, including carcinogens, endocrine-disrupting compounds, criteria air pollutants, and harmful microbes, are often elevated relative to levels measured outside the home. These exposures are important determinants of non-communicable diseases and they are magnified by racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequalities that prevail across the country. Thus, there is a growing need for accessible environmental testing tools and educational programs to create awareness and inspire change in living conditions for improved long-term health. The cost and complexity of existing environmental measurement technologies are in large part why the average household, especially minority or socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals, are unaware of the environmental stressors in their place of residence. This Phase I proposal will develop and demonstrate a novel and inexpensive environmental home assessment tool (Home Health Box) for measuring air and water quality in homes. The Home Health Box is a sensor and sample collection system that can be deployed by the home occupant quickly, simply, and with minimal effort. Analysis will include environmental stressors in air (particulate matter, black carbon, metals, volatile organics, mold/bacteria) and water (residual chlorine, metals, bacteria). After constructing and testing the boxes we will deploy them across minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged homes in Fort Collins, CO. Measurement data will be communicated back to the home occupant (with an emphasis on culturally-sensitive design of communications). The Home Health Box will empower individuals to understand, recognize, and mitigate environmental hazards in the home – a place where the majority of exposure tends to occur. Two aims are proposed: (1) Develop a simple, portable sampling and sensor system to quantify environmental stressors using a citizen-science approach and (2) demonstrate performance and value of the Home Health Box concept in a pilot field study of racial and ethnic minority residents in Fort Collins, Colorado.

项目总结

项目成果

Design and Testing of a Low-Cost Sensor and Sampling Platform for Indoor Air Quality.

低成本室内空气质量传感器和采样平台的设计和测试。

• DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108398
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Building and environment
• 影响因子: 7.4
• 作者: Tryner,Jessica;Phillips,Mollie;Quinn,Casey;Neymark,Gabe;Wilson,Ander;Jathar,ShantanuH;Carter,Ellison;Volckens,John
• 通讯作者: Volckens,John