PMID- 30506416
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20190118
LR  - 20190129
IS  - 1573-2959 (Electronic)
IS  - 0167-6369 (Linking)
VI  - 191
IP  - 1
DP  - 2018 Dec 1
TI  - Spatial dynamic assessment of health risks for urban river cruises.
PG  - 1
LID - 10.1007/s10661-018-7122-4 [doi]
AB  - River cruising ships move along river courses, and thus health risks to 
      passengers may vary spatially due to the accidental exposure of river fecal 
      pollution. This study performed a spatial dynamic assessment of health risks for 
      river cruises in the highly urbanized Tamsui River Basin. First, the spatial 
      distributions of river Escherichia coli (E. coli) were probabilistically 
      characterized using indicator kriging (IK). Moreover, the current river cruise 
      information was surveyed to obtain cruise routes and transit times. Then, to 
      explore the parametric uncertainty of quantitative microbial risk assessment 
      (QMRA), the ingestion rate (IR) for boating was determined using Monte Carlo 
      simulation (MCS). Moreover, river E. coli distributions were estimated using 
      nonparametric MCS according to multi-threshold IK estimates. Eventually, after 
      combining the distribution of the joint probability of the IR and E. coli in 
      QMRA, the beta-Poisson dose-response function was adopted to analyze risks to river 
      cruise passengers at discretized segments of cruise routes. Health risks to river 
      cruise passengers were integrated at the discretized segments to explore suitable 
      recreational strategies for river cruises. The research results indicate that all 
      health risks do not exceed a daily target level of 8 illnesses per 1000 exposures 
      for single-trip cruise routes. However, health risks to passengers can exceed 
      this level for round-trip cruise routes along highly polluted urban river 
      courses.
FAU - Jang, Cheng-Shin
AU  - Jang CS
AD  - Department of Leisure and Recreation Management, Kainan University, Taoyuan City, 
      338, Taiwan. csjang@mail.knu.edu.tw.
FAU - Liang, Ching-Ping
AU  - Liang CP
AD  - Department of Nursing, Fooyin University, Kaohsiung City, 831, Taiwan.
FAU - Chen, Shih-Kai
AU  - Chen SK
AD  - Department of Civil Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 
      City, 106, Taiwan.
LA  - eng
GR  - MOST 106-2410-H-424-020/Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20181201
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Environ Monit Assess
JT  - Environmental monitoring and assessment
JID - 8508350
SB  - IM
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/*methods
MH  - Escherichia coli/*isolation & purification
MH  - Feces
MH  - Humans
MH  - Probability
MH  - Risk Assessment/methods
MH  - Rivers/*microbiology
MH  - *Ships
MH  - Spatial Analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Escherichia coli
OT  - Indicator kriging
OT  - Monte Carlo simulation
OT  - Quantitative microbial risk assessment
OT  - River cruise
OT  - Uncertainty
EDAT- 2018/12/07 06:00
MHDA- 2019/01/19 06:00
CRDT- 2018/12/04 06:00
PHST- 2018/07/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/11/23 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2018/12/04 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/12/07 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/01/19 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s10661-018-7122-4 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s10661-018-7122-4 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Environ Monit Assess. 2018 Dec 1;191(1):1. doi: 10.1007/s10661-018-7122-4.