Physical Activity, a Critical Exposure Factor of Environmental Pollution in Children and Adolescents Health Risk Assessment

Jingmei Dong, Su Zhang, Li Xia, Yi Yu, Shuangshuang Hu, Jingyu Sun, Ping Zhou and Peijie Chen
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Jingmei Dong: Department of Physical Education, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Su Zhang: Department of Physical Education, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Li Xia: Department of Physical Education, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Yi Yu: Department of Physical Education, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Shuangshuang Hu: Department of Physical Education, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Jingyu Sun: Department of Physical Education, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Ping Zhou: Department of Physical Education, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Peijie Chen: Department of Sports Science, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai 200438, China

IJERPH, 2018, vol. 15, issue 2, 1-16

Abstract: It is an extremely urgent problem that physical fitness promotion must face not only the increasing air pollution but also the decline of physical activity level of children and adolescents worldwide at present, which is the major reason that forms an inactive lifestyle and does harm to adolescents’ health. Thus, it is necessary to focus on the exposure factor in environmental health risk assessment (EHRA) which conducts supervision of environmental pollution and survey of adolescents’ activity patterns according to the harmful characteristics of air pollutant and relationship between dose and response. Some countries, such as USA, Canada and Australia, regard both respiratory rate and physical activity pattern as main exposure factors for adolescents in both air pollution health risk assessment and exercise risk assessment to forecast a safe exposing condition of pollutant for adolescents while they are doing exercise outdoors. In addition, it suggests that the testing indexes and testing methods of these two exposure factors, such as investigating the time of daily physical activity, strength, and characteristic of frequency, help to set up the quantitative relationship between environmental pollution index and the time, strength, frequency of daily activities, and formulate children’s and adolescents’ activity instructions under different levels of environmental pollutions. As smog becomes increasingly serious at present, it is meaningful to take physical activity as a critical composition of exposure factor and establish physical activity guideline, so as to reduce the risk of air pollution, and promote physical health of children and adolescents effectively.

Keywords: air pollution; children and adolescents; physical activity; environmental health risk assessment; exposure factor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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