Monitoring of atmospheric air quality in cities participating in the federal project “Clean Air” of the Far Eastern Economic Region

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Abstract

Introduction. Air pollution over 2021 was associated with about 6.7 thousand additional deaths and almost 1.1 million additional cases of illness among the Russian population. Conducting an atmospheric air quality assessment for the subsequent selection of priority measures aimed at reducing its negative impact on public health is the main task of the Clean Air federal project.

The aim of the study is to assess the management of monitoring and air quality in the cities of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky, and Ussuriysk before the implementation of the federal project “Clean Air”.

Materials and methods. The monitoring programs for atmospheric air quality, the results of laboratory studies for 2021 were used. The number, location of observation posts, volumes, frequency of sampling, a list of indicators, the total number of samples, the number of samples exceeding the MPC, average annual, maximum one-time concentrations of pollutants were analyzed.

Results. In Komsomolsk-on-Amur, atmospheric air quality monitoring was carried out at 4 stationary and 3 route posts, Ussuriysk — 1 mobile and 1 stationary post, Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky — 1 stationary post. All studied cities are characterized by systematic excesses of hygienic standards for specific indicators. The level of air pollution in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur is assessed as very high, in the cities of Ussuriysk and Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky — low. Despite the low level of air pollution, these towns are characterized by systematic excesses of hygienic standards of some indicators.

Limitations. The study analyzed the management of monitoring and the results of laboratory studies of atmospheric air only in the cities of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Ussuriysk, Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky.

Conclusion. The existing monitoring system in the Ussuriysk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky cities fails to allow an objective assessing of the quality of atmospheric air and its impact on public health. To objective evaluation of the impact of atmospheric air quality on the health of the population of the studied cities, measures to optimize the monitoring system were proposed.

Compliance with ethical standards. The study does not require the submission of a biomedical ethics committee opinion or other documents.

Contribution:
Fedorov V.N. — concept and design of the study, statistical data processing, data visualization;
Kovshov A.A. — the concept of the study, collection of literature data, writing the text;
Tikhonova N.A. — collection of literature data, formation of a database;
Novikova Yu.A. — database formation, statistical data processing, text editing;
Kopytenkova O.I. — text editing;
Myasnikov I.O. — writing the text.
All authors are responsible for the integrity of all parts of the manuscript and approval of the manuscript final version.

Conflict of interest. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Acknowledgment. The study had no sponsorship.

Received: June 30, 2023 / Revised: April 11, 2024 / Accepted: June 19, 2024 / Published: July 17, 2024

 

About the authors

Vladimir N. Fedorov

North-West Public Health Research Center

Author for correspondence.
Email: vf1986@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1378-1232

Senior Researcher, Head of Health Risk Analysis Department of the North-West Public Health Research Center, St.-Petersburg, 191036, Russian Federation

e-mail: vf1986@mail.ru

Russian Federation

Aleksandr A. Kovshov

North-West Public Health Research Center; North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov

Email: a.kovshov@s-znc.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9453-8431

MD, PhD, Senior Researcher, Head of the Occupational Hygiene Department of the North-West Public Health Research Center, St.-Petersburg, 191036, Russian Federation; Assistant Professor of the Department for Hygiene of Educational, Training, and Labour Conditions, and Radiation Hygiene of the North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov, Saint Petersburg, 191015, Russian Federation

e-mail: a.kovshov@s-znc.ru

Russian Federation

Nadezhda A. Tikhonova

North-West Public Health Research Center

Email: n.tihonova@s-znc.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4895-4009

Junior Researcher, Department of Social and Hygienic Analysis and Monitoring of the North-West Public Health Research Center, St.-Petersburg, 191036, Russian Federation

e-mail: n.tihonova@s-znc.ru

Russian Federation

Yuliya A. Novikova

North-West Public Health Research Center

Email: j.novikova@s-znc.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4752-2036

Senior Researcher, Head of the Department of Social and Hygienic Analysis and Monitoring of the North-West Public Health Research Center, St.-Petersburg, 191036, Russian Federation

e-mail: j.novikova@s-znc.ru

Russian Federation

Olga I. Kopytenkova

North-West Public Health Research Center; Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University

Email: 5726164@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8412-5457

MD, PhD, DSci., professor, Chief Researcher, Department of Hygiene of the North-West Public Health Research Center, St.-Petersburg, 191036, Russian Federation; Professor of the North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov, Saint Petersburg, 191015, Russian Federation; Professor of the Department of Technospheric and Environmental Safety, Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University, St.-Petersburg, 190031, Russian Federation

e-mail: 5726164@mail.ru

Russian Federation

Igor O. Myasnikov

North-West Public Health Research Center

Email: i.myasnikov@s-znc.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4459-2066

MD, PhD, Senior researcher of the Department of scientific support of social and hygienic monitoring, North-West Public Health Research Center, St.-Petersburg, 191036, Russian Federation

e-mail: i.myasnikov@s-znc.ru

Russian Federation

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