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Table 1 Bibliography related to exposure modeling for a multilevel approach

From: Characterizing environmental geographic inequalities using an integrated exposure assessment

References

Type of assessment

Main input data

Model

Major outcomes / breakthroughs

Bulle et al, 2019 [5]

Life cycle impact assessment

Emission and exposure data

IMPACT World+

Novel framework that includes recent methodological advances in multiple impact categories in a consistent way by implementing the same modeling structure of fate, exposure, exposure response, and severity across ecosystem quality and human health-related impact categories.

Ciffroy et al, 2015 [6]

Integrated Risk Assessment

Emission and exposure data

MERLIN-Expo: fate and exposure model, non-spatial model

Key points for integration across the human and environmental disciplines is the move from environmental fate and exposure estimations to the internal dose in the exposure assessment

Nieuwenhuijsen et al, 2019 [7]

Environmental epidemiology; exposure-wide association study

Built environment, air pollution, road traffic noise, meteorology, natural space, and road traffic

Proximity models, interpolation models, Land Use Regression models, dispersion models

First large urban exposome study of birth weight that tests many environmental urban exposures. It confirmed previously reported associations for green space exposure and generated new hypotheses for a number of built-environment exposures.

Vrijheid et al, 2020 [8]

Environmental epidemiology; exposure-wide association study

Indoor and outdoor air pollutants, built environment, green spaces, tobacco smoking, and biomarkers of chemical pollutants

Proximity models, interpolation models, Land Use Regression models, dispersion models

First comprehensive and systematic analysis of many suspected environmental obesogens strengthens evidence for an association of smoking, air pollution exposure, and characteristics of the built environment with childhood obesity risk.

Juarez et al, 2014 [9]

Spatio-temporal and multilevel approach for examining exogenous and endogenous source-exposure-disease relationships

Natural, built, social and policy environment variables

Spatial and multi-level statistic approach

Retrospective and prospective systems theory modeling and methods, including advanced and complex multi-level, spatial, Bayesian, and high throughput mathematical designs. Use of data-driven, graph theory/combinatorial techniques and analytics from computational biology to identify relationships among the myriad of environmental exposure and population health data points.

Teeguarden et al, 2016 [10]

Aggregate exposure assessments

Emission, environmental concentration, population behavior and physiology

Aggregate Exposure Pathway

Development of the Aggregate Exposure Pathway concept as the organizational framework for exposure science, builds on the long history of aggregate exposure assessments as a key feature of the field and recent technological advances in computational exposure modeling and informatics.

Bravo et al, 2012 [11]

Data sampling and data reprensentativeness

Monitoring data, emission and meteorological data

Community Multi-Scale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system

Spatial and temporal resolution improvement and uncertainty reduction

Malherbe et al, 2002 [12]

Data sampling and data reprensentativeness

Topsoil concentration data

Statistical (probabilistic) vs. non-statistical (directed) approaches

Procedure that could be followed to design a soil sampling strategy for human health risk assessment

Caudeville et al, 2012 [13]

Spatial human exposure

Topsoil concentration data

Geostatistic and Modul’ERS model

Complex geostatical method used for human exposure assessment

Chakraborty et al, 2011 [14]

Environmental justice and health risk disparities

Air concentration data, ethnicities, cancer rate

Simultaneous autoregressive (SAR) models

Spatial regression models for assessing environmental justice and health risk disparities

Goovaerts, 2001 [15]

Spatial environmental contamination

Topsoil and parental material data

Several kriging models

Modelling of uncertainty for single continuous soil attributes. The issue of assessing the goodness of such models has rarely been addressed and criteria similar to the ones introduced here could be developed.

Jerrett et al, 2005 [16]

Spatial environmental contamination

Emission, topology, meteorological, air concentation

Proximity models, interpolation models, Land Use Regression models, dispersion models

Review of the current state of knowledge for intraurban air pollution exposure assessment.

Cattle et al, 2002 [17]

Spatial environmental contamination

Topsoil concentration data

Kriging model

Comparison of different inteprolation methods applied for air pollution

Kanevski et al, 2009 [18]

Spatial environmental contamination

Spatial environmental data

Machine learning models

Application of machine learning methods for solving the problems of spatial dimension. Most machine learning literatures address on algorithms and models for solving non-spatial problems.

Van de Kassteele et al, 2009 [19]

Spatial environmental contamination

Emission, topology, meteorological, air concentation

External drift kriging method

Combination of observations and a deterministic dispersion modeldescription to propose a model-based geostatistical interpolation procedure.

Breiman, 2001 [20]

Spatial environmental contamination

14 variables about physicochemical soil properties

Hybrid regression-kriging fitted using Random Forest models

Application of machine learning methods for solving the problems of spatial dimension on environmental thematic

Ioannidou et al, 2018 [21]

Integrated spatial human exposure

Water, air, soil, food, behavorial data

PLAINE and Modul’ERS

Proposition of an aggregated exposure assessment approach based on on modeling and monitoring network at a national scale. Adapted method for each environmental compartment are adapted for existing monitoring networks

Guerreiro et al, 2016 [22]

Health impact

Emission, topology, meteorological, air concentation

Chimere and kriging model

Combining observations and chemical transport models through the use of spatial interpolation methods at a continental scale

Ratola et Jiménez-Guerrero, 2015 [23]

Spatial environmental contamination

Emission, topology, meteorological, air concentation

Chimere and vegetation transfer model

Combining venegetation concentration observations and chemical transport models through the use of transfer model

Pennington et al, 2005 [24]

Spatial human exposure

Emission, topology, meteorological, air concentation

IMPACT Western Europe

The model facilitates estimation of concentration profiles of dispersed contaminants and human intake at the population level. The results are presented in the form of intake fractions, the fraction of an emission that will be taken in by the entire population.

Gerlowski et Jain, 1983 [25]

Toxicokinetic modeling and internal exposure

Physiological and exposure data

Toxicokinetic model

First review of physiologically based pharmacokinetics to increase the use of this modeling technique.

Quindroit et al, 2019 [26]

Toxicokinetic modeling and internal exposure

Physiologicaln ingestion, inhlation and dermal exposure data

Toxicokinetic model

Global model for pyrethroids in humans using in vivo, in vitro and in silico data.