Air Pollution Health Risk Assessment (AP-HRA), Principles and Applications
| Autor: | Hooman Farzaneh, Tavoos Hassan Bhat, Guo Jiawen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Population Air pollution lcsh:Medicine Public Policy Review 010501 environmental sciences medicine.disease_cause 01 natural sciences Risk Assessment Air Pollution medicine Global health Humans concentration-response functions education Air quality index Environmental planning air pollution exposure Disease burden 0105 earth and related environmental sciences education.field_of_study Air Pollutants health risk Health risk assessment Public health lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Environmental Exposure Health effect Particulate Matter Business Public Health air pollution aseessment tools |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 1935, p 1935 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
| Popis: | Air pollution is a major public health problem. A significant number of epidemiological studies have found a correlation between air quality and a wide variety of adverse health impacts emphasizing a considerable role of air pollution in the disease burden in the general population ranging from subclinical effects to premature death. Health risk assessment of air quality can play a key role at individual and global health promotion and disease prevention levels. The Air Pollution Health Risk Assessment (AP-HRA) forecasts the expected health effect of policies impacting air quality under the various policy, environmental and socio-economic circumstances, making it a key tool for guiding public policy decisions. This paper presents the concept of AP-HRA and offers an outline for the proper conducting of AP-HRA for different scenarios, explaining in broad terms how the health hazards of air emissions and their origins are measured and how air pollution-related impacts are quantified. In this paper, seven widely used AP-HRA tools will be deeply explored, taking into account their spatial resolution, technological factors, pollutants addressed, geographical scale, quantified health effects, method of classification, and operational characteristics. Finally, a comparative analysis of the proposed tools will be conducted, using the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) method. |
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