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Combining Community Engagement and Scientific Approaches in Next-Generation Monitor Siting: The Case of the Imperial County Community Air Network

Air pollution continues to be a global public health threat, and the expanding availability of small, low-cost air sensors has led to increased interest in both personal and crowd-sourced air monitoring. However, to date, few low-cost air monitoring networks have been developed with the scientific r...

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Autores principales: Wong, Michelle, Bejarano, Esther, Carvlin, Graeme, Fellows, Katie, King, Galatea, Lugo, Humberto, Jerrett, Michael, Meltzer, Dan, Northcross, Amanda, Olmedo, Luis, Seto, Edmund, Wilkie, Alexa, English, Paul
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5877068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29543726
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15030523
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author Wong, Michelle
Bejarano, Esther
Carvlin, Graeme
Fellows, Katie
King, Galatea
Lugo, Humberto
Jerrett, Michael
Meltzer, Dan
Northcross, Amanda
Olmedo, Luis
Seto, Edmund
Wilkie, Alexa
English, Paul
author_facet Wong, Michelle
Bejarano, Esther
Carvlin, Graeme
Fellows, Katie
King, Galatea
Lugo, Humberto
Jerrett, Michael
Meltzer, Dan
Northcross, Amanda
Olmedo, Luis
Seto, Edmund
Wilkie, Alexa
English, Paul
author_sort Wong, Michelle
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description Air pollution continues to be a global public health threat, and the expanding availability of small, low-cost air sensors has led to increased interest in both personal and crowd-sourced air monitoring. However, to date, few low-cost air monitoring networks have been developed with the scientific rigor or continuity needed to conduct public health surveillance and inform policy. In Imperial County, California, near the U.S./Mexico border, we used a collaborative, community-engaged process to develop a community air monitoring network that attains the scientific rigor required for research, while also achieving community priorities. By engaging community residents in the project design, monitor siting processes, data dissemination, and other key activities, the resulting air monitoring network data are relevant, trusted, understandable, and used by community residents. Integration of spatial analysis and air monitoring best practices into the network development process ensures that the data are reliable and appropriate for use in research activities. This combined approach results in a community air monitoring network that is better able to inform community residents, support research activities, guide public policy, and improve public health. Here we detail the monitor siting process and outline the advantages and challenges of this approach.
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spelling pubmed-58770682018-04-09 Combining Community Engagement and Scientific Approaches in Next-Generation Monitor Siting: The Case of the Imperial County Community Air Network Wong, Michelle Bejarano, Esther Carvlin, Graeme Fellows, Katie King, Galatea Lugo, Humberto Jerrett, Michael Meltzer, Dan Northcross, Amanda Olmedo, Luis Seto, Edmund Wilkie, Alexa English, Paul Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Air pollution continues to be a global public health threat, and the expanding availability of small, low-cost air sensors has led to increased interest in both personal and crowd-sourced air monitoring. However, to date, few low-cost air monitoring networks have been developed with the scientific rigor or continuity needed to conduct public health surveillance and inform policy. In Imperial County, California, near the U.S./Mexico border, we used a collaborative, community-engaged process to develop a community air monitoring network that attains the scientific rigor required for research, while also achieving community priorities. By engaging community residents in the project design, monitor siting processes, data dissemination, and other key activities, the resulting air monitoring network data are relevant, trusted, understandable, and used by community residents. Integration of spatial analysis and air monitoring best practices into the network development process ensures that the data are reliable and appropriate for use in research activities. This combined approach results in a community air monitoring network that is better able to inform community residents, support research activities, guide public policy, and improve public health. Here we detail the monitor siting process and outline the advantages and challenges of this approach. MDPI 2018-03-15 2018-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5877068/ /pubmed/29543726 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15030523 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Bejarano, Esther
Carvlin, Graeme
Fellows, Katie
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Northcross, Amanda
Olmedo, Luis
Seto, Edmund
Wilkie, Alexa
English, Paul
Combining Community Engagement and Scientific Approaches in Next-Generation Monitor Siting: The Case of the Imperial County Community Air Network
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title_full_unstemmed Combining Community Engagement and Scientific Approaches in Next-Generation Monitor Siting: The Case of the Imperial County Community Air Network
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5877068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29543726
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15030523
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