A Preliminary Attempt at the Identification and Financial Estimation of the Negative Health Effects of Urban and Industrial Air Pollution Based on the Agglomeration of Gdańsk
Autor: | Piotr Oskar Czechowski, Aneta Oniszczuk-Jastrząbek, Michalina Bielawska, Piotr Dąbrowiecki, Tomasz Owczarek, Ernest Czermański, Patrycja Rogula-Kopiec, Artur Badyda |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
air pollution
Geography Planning and Development Air pollution 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law medicine.disease_cause health effects of air pollution 01 natural sciences respiratory infections 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Agency (sociology) medicine COPD 030212 general & internal medicine 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Estimation Finance Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Economies of agglomeration asthma Seasonality medicine.disease Port (computer networking) costs of health loss by air emission Identification (information) Geography statistics Scale (social sciences) business GRM model |
Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 12 Issue 1 |
ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
Popis: | This article marks the first attempt on Polish and European scale to identify the relationship between urban and industrial air pollution and the health conditions of urban populations, while also estimating the financial burden of incidence rates among urban populations for diseases selected in the course of this study as having a causal relation with such incidence. This paper presents the findings of a pilot study based on general regression models, intended to explore air pollutants with a statistically relevant impact on the incidence of selected diseases within the Agglomeration of Gdańsk in the years 2010&ndash 2018. In discussing the city&rsquo s industrial functions, the study takes into consideration the existence within its limits of a large port that services thousands of ships every year, contributing substantially to the volume of emissions (mainly NOx and PM) to the air. The causes considered include the impact of air pollution, seasonality, land- and sea-based emissions, as well as their mutual interactions. All of the factors and their interactions have a significant impact (p &le 0.05) on the incidence of selected diseases in the long term (9 years). The source data were obtained from the Polish National Health Fund (NFZ), the Agency for Regional Monitoring of Atmosphere in the Agglomeration of Gdańsk (ARMAAG), the Chief Inspectorate of Environmental Protection (GIOŚ), and the Port of Gdańsk Harbourmaster. The study used 60 variables representing the diseases, classified into 19 groups (Appendix A, Figure A1). The resulting findings were used to formulate a methodology for estimating the financial burden of the negative health effects of air pollution for the agglomeration, and will be utilized as a reference point for further research in selected regions of Poland. |
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