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DOI	10.1007/s10653-019-00308-4
	An integrated study of health, environmental and socioeconomic indicators in a mining-impacted community exposed to metal enrichment
	Moya, Pablo M.1; Arce, Guillermo J.1; Leiva, Cinthya 2; Vega, Alejandra S.1; Gutierrez, Santiago 2; Adaros, Hector 3; Munoz, Luis 4; Pasten, Pablo A.1,5; Cortes, Sandra 1,2,6
通讯作者	Cortes, Sandra
来源期刊	ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH
ISSN	0269-4042
EISSN	1573-2983
出版年	2019
卷号	41 期号:6 页码:2505-2519
英文摘要	The occurrence of toxic metals and metalloids associated with mine tailings is a serious public health concern for communities living in mining areas. This work explores the relationship between metal occurrence (e.g., spatial distribution in street dusts), human health indicators (e.g., metals in urine samples, lifestyle and self-reported diseases) and socioeconomic status (SES) using Chanaral city (in northern Chile) as study site, where a copper mine tailing was disposed in the periurban area. This study model may shed light on the development of environmental and health surveillance plans on arid cities where legacy mining is a sustainability challenge. High concentrations of metals were found in street dust, with arsenic and copper concentrations of 24 +/- 13 and 607 +/- 911 mg/kg, respectively. The arsenic concentration in street dust correlated with distance to the mine tailing (r = - 0.32, p-value = 0.009), suggesting that arsenic is dispersed from this source toward the city. Despite these high environmental concentrations, urinary levels of metals were low, while 90% of the population had concentrations of inorganic arsenic and its metabolites in urine below 33.2 mu g/L, copper was detected in few urine samples (< 6%). Our results detected statistically significant differences in environmental exposures across SES, but, surprisingly, there was no significant correlation between urinary levels of metals and SES. Despite this, future assessment and control strategies in follow-up research or surveillance programs should consider environmental and urinary concentrations and SES as indicators of environmental exposure to metals in mining communities.
英文关键词	Mine tailings Chile Metals Street dust Urine Human exposure
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Chile
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000496589200009
WOS关键词	HEAVY-METALS ; STREET DUST ; MINE TAILINGS ; ARSENIC CONCENTRATIONS ; DRINKING-WATER ; AREA ; CONTAMINATION ; RISK ; SOIL ; GEOCHEMISTRY
WOS类目	Engineering, Environmental ; Environmental Sciences ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health ; Water Resources
WOS研究方向	Engineering ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health ; Water Resources
EI主题词	2019-12-01
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/311110
作者单位	1.Ctr Desarrollo Urbano Sustentable CEDEUS, El Comendador 1916, Santiago, Chile; 2.Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Dept Salud Publ, Diagonal Paraguay 362,Piso 2, Santiago, Chile; 3.Hosp Jeronimo Mendez Arancibia, Arturo Prat 1000, Chanaral, Chile; 4.Comis Chilena Energia Nucl, Nueva Bilbao 12501, Santiago, Chile; 5.Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Dept Ingn Hidraul & Ambiental, Av Vicuna Mackenna 4860, Santiago, Chile; 6.Ctr Avanzado Enfermedades Cron ACCDiS, Sergio Livingstone 1007, Santiago, Chile
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Moya, Pablo M.,Arce, Guillermo J.,Leiva, Cinthya,et al. An integrated study of health, environmental and socioeconomic indicators in a mining-impacted community exposed to metal enrichment[J],2019,41(6):2505-2519.
APA	Moya, Pablo M..,Arce, Guillermo J..,Leiva, Cinthya.,Vega, Alejandra S..,Gutierrez, Santiago.,...&Cortes, Sandra.(2019).An integrated study of health, environmental and socioeconomic indicators in a mining-impacted community exposed to metal enrichment.ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH,41(6),2505-2519.
MLA	Moya, Pablo M.,et al."An integrated study of health, environmental and socioeconomic indicators in a mining-impacted community exposed to metal enrichment".ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH 41.6(2019):2505-2519.