Title: Reading and Audio Visual Assignment
Course: WGF 106 DEVELOPMENT > Section: Content

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Sub-Title | Human Activity Pattern: Increasingly Indoors
Content | To understand how humans are exposed to chemicals, scientists need to have accurate information on what people do every day – where they spend their time, what they eat, and how long they sleep, for example. These activities determine the contexts, circumstances, and durations of our chemical exposures. Using these data, scientists can better understand the chemicals that pose threats to human health, and how best to limit or eliminate these risks.
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Content | EPA scientists have compiled detailed data on human behavior from 19 separate studies into EPA’s Consolidated Human Activity Database (CHAD). The database includes a total of more than 30,000 individual study days of detailed human behavior, with each day broken down into individual hours and activity types. The data also include demographic information, including age, sex, employment, and education level, which allows researchers to examine specific groups within the general population and how their unique behavior patterns influence their exposures to chemicals. Results and Impact Scientists at EPA, other government agencies, academia, and in private sector organizations routinely use CHAD data in human exposure and health studies, and in models used for exposure and risk assessment. EPA’s program offices use CHAD to help develop strategies to protect human health, and scientists around the world have cited it in hundreds of peer-reviewed studies. The data is freely available to the public.
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JEA&EE_Klepeis et al (2001) _The National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS)-A Resource for Assessing Exposure to Environmental Pollutants_.pdf

Consolidated Human Activity Database (CHAD) – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency               http://www.epa.gov/heasd/chad.html

http://www.epa.gov/heasd/documents/chad_fact_sheet.pdf

https://iaspub.epa.gov/apex/chad/f?p=MENU:101:7031714283095:::::

Exposure Research – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/nerl/

Human Exposure Database Explored – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency http://cfpub.epa.gov/ordpubs/nerlpubs/recordisplay.cfm?deid=81212
Attributions | Images courtesy of JEA&EE_Klepeis et al (2001) _The National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS)-A Resource for Assessing Exposure to Environmental Pollutants_.pdf Content courtesy of Consolidated Human Activity Database (CHAD) – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency