Erratum to: Personal Exposure to Fine-particle Black Carbon Air Pollution Among Schoolchildren Living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Authors

  • Ulzii Dashnyam National Center for Maternal and Child Health, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  • Nicole Warburton The Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Rossa Brugha The Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, England, UK
  • Ichinkhorloo Tserenkh National Center for Maternal and Child Health, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia<
  • Enkhmaa Davaasambuu National Center for Maternal and Child Health, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  • Shonkhuuz Enkhtur National Center for Maternal and Child Health, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  • Bayalog Munkhuu National Center for Maternal and Child Health, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  • Sereeter Lodoysamba National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  • Baigalmaa Dashdendev National Center for Maternal and Child Health, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  • Jonathan Grigg The Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, England, UK
  • David Warburton The Saban Research Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24079/cajms.2016.01.018

Keywords:

Child Welfare, Air Pollution

Abstract

Cent Asian J Med Sci. 2015 November;1(1):67-74 , DOI: 10.24079/cajms.2015.01.011

In this study, personal monitoring of black carbon in the PM2,5 size fraction was conducted with children. In the article, several times measurements were referred to incorrectly as being personal PM2,5 exposure, which is not accurate since black carbon within the PM2,5 size fraction was measured, not total PM2,5. The stationary monitoring was referred to correctly since black carbon in the PM25 size fraction was measured with the AethLabs aethalometer in addition to the PM2,5 size fraction with the TSI DustTrak, but the children's exposure was only measured with the AethLabs aethalometer. As seen in Table 1 from the stationary monitoring, black carbon comprises only 5-31% of the total PM2,5 concentration. Therefore, if the children's exposure in Table 2, Figure 3, and in the text is interpreted as total PM2,5 exposure, their exposure to PM2,5 is underestimated. In all instances referring to the children's exposure, the measurement should be referred to as the black carbon in the PM2,5 size fractio.

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Author Biography

Ulzii Dashnyam, National Center for Maternal and Child Health, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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Published

2016-06-25

How to Cite

Dashnyam, U., Warburton, N., Brugha, R., Tserenkh, I., Davaasambuu, E., Enkhtur, S., … Warburton, D. (2016). Erratum to: Personal Exposure to Fine-particle Black Carbon Air Pollution Among Schoolchildren Living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Central Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2(1), 107. https://doi.org/10.24079/cajms.2016.01.018

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2016)

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Erratum

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