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HUMAN EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT<br />

Public post offices, courthouses, sports arenas, convention hall<br />

Institutional schools, hospitals, convalescent homes<br />

Indoors-Transportation<br />

Private automobiles, private aeroplanes<br />

Public buses, subways, trains, commercial aeroplanes<br />

3.5.2.2 Models as an indirect approach to assessing exposure<br />

The microenvironmental exposure equation describes a model<br />

commonly used for assessment of air pollutant exposure. More<br />

generally, models are useful tools for quantifying the relationship<br />

between pollutant exposure and important explanatory variables, as<br />

well as for expanding existing exposure information to estimation of<br />

exposures of new populations and subgroups, and future exposure<br />

scenarios. Validated exposure models reduce the need for expensive<br />

http://www.inchem.org/documents/ehc/ehc/ehc<strong>214</strong>.htm<br />

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