EXPAH

Population Exposure to PAH

The Project

The European Community funded a project (EXPAH) by means of LIFE financial instrument, with the aim to identify and to quantify population exposure among children and elderly people to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) content in particulate matter in highly urbanized areas and to assess the impact on human health, in order to support environmental policy and regulation in this field.

The project is based on an integrated approach where measurements, modeling techniques and epidemiologic investigations will be used to obtain estimation maps of population exposure to PAHs, to identify key determinants of high exposures including time-activity and locations in relation to the sources and to estimate potential health effects on the target population.