Health Risk Assessment of PM10 Exposure among School Children and the Proposed API Level for Closing the School during Haze in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Norlen Mohamed,, Lokman Hakim Sulaiman,, Thahirahtul Asma Zakaria,, Anis Salwa Kamarudin,, Daud Abdul Rahim,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9699/1/vol_6_no_1_2016_89.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9699/

Introduction: During haze, at what level should Air Pollutant Index (API) showed, public or private school be closed is not without controversy and is very much debated. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to objectively quantify the potential inhaled dose of PM10 associated with exposure at school...