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Global health impacts of ambient fine particulate pollution associated with climate variability
Abstract Air pollution is a key global environmental problem raising human health concern. It is essential to comprehensively assess the long-term characteristics of air pollution and the resultant health impacts. We first assessed the global trends of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) during 1980–2020 using a monthly global PM2.5 reanalysis dataset, and evaluated their association with three types of climate variability including El Niño-Southern Oscillation, Indian Ocean Dipole and North Atlantic Oscillation. We then estimated PM2.5-attributable premature deaths using integrated exposure–response functions. Results show a significant increasing trend of ambient PM2.5 during 1980–2020 due to increases in anthropogenic emissions. Ambient PM2.5 caused a total of ∼ 135 million premature deaths globally during the four decades. Occurrence of air pollution episodes was strongly associated with climate variability, which were associated with up to 14 % increase in annual global PM2.5-attributable premature deaths.
Global health impacts of ambient fine particulate pollution associated with climate variability
Abstract Air pollution is a key global environmental problem raising human health concern. It is essential to comprehensively assess the long-term characteristics of air pollution and the resultant health impacts. We first assessed the global trends of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) during 1980–2020 using a monthly global PM2.5 reanalysis dataset, and evaluated their association with three types of climate variability including El Niño-Southern Oscillation, Indian Ocean Dipole and North Atlantic Oscillation. We then estimated PM2.5-attributable premature deaths using integrated exposure–response functions. Results show a significant increasing trend of ambient PM2.5 during 1980–2020 due to increases in anthropogenic emissions. Ambient PM2.5 caused a total of ∼ 135 million premature deaths globally during the four decades. Occurrence of air pollution episodes was strongly associated with climate variability, which were associated with up to 14 % increase in annual global PM2.5-attributable premature deaths.
Global health impacts of ambient fine particulate pollution associated with climate variability
Yim, S.H.L. (author) / Li, Y. (author) / Huang, T. (author) / Lim, J.T. (author) / Lee, H.F. (author) / Chotirmall, S.H. (author) / Dong, G.H. (author) / Abisheganaden, J. (author) / Wedzicha, J.A. (author) / Schuster, S.C. (author)
2024-03-18
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Global health impacts of ambient fine particulate pollution associated with climate variability
DOAJ | 2024
|Global health impacts of ambient fine particulate pollution associated with climate variability
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