A health-based economic assessment of PM2.5 pollution in Chinese major cities

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10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.240How to use a DOI?

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PM2.5 air pollution health impacts economic assessment

Abstract

PM2.5 particulate pollution is becoming an important risk factor for the health of urban residents in China. In order to quantitatively evaluate the health effects and economic losses of atmospheric particulate matter pollution on residents this study uses exposure-response relationship based on the epidemiological studies to estimate the death and incidence caused by PM2.5 in 2013; on this basis, combined with the economic value of unit health effect, the corresponding economic losses are calculated. The results show that China's current PM2.5 particulate pollution has caused obvious harm and economic loss to the residents' health.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lingyue Lv
AU  - Hongyuan Li
AU  - Jianan Yang
PY  - 2015/09
DA  - 2015/09
TI  - A health-based economic assessment of PM2.5 pollution in Chinese major cities
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 International Forum on Energy, Environment Science and Materials
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1318
EP  - 1323
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.240
DO  - 10.2991/ifeesm-15.2015.240
ID  - Lv2015/09
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