Asia is experiencing rapid increases in industrialization, urbanization, and motor vehicle
transport with correspondingly high levels of pollution. We undertook a systematic review …

Scientific evidence spanning experimental and epidemiologic studies has shown that air
pollution exposures can lead to a range of health effects. Quantitative approaches that allow …

Ambient air pollution is among the most pressing environmental problems in our
contemporary world that poses significant risks to global ecological and public health. This …

Estimation of the effects of environmental impacts is a major focus of current theoretical and
policy research in environmental economics. Such estimates are used to set regulatory …

BACKGROUND The growing scientific evidence for effects of air pollution on health at
concentrations below current air quality standards and the large burden of disease attributed …

Background China has experienced increasingly severe levels of air pollution in the past
decades, yet studies on the health effects of air pollution in China at a national study level …

Exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) is a major global health concern.
Quantitative estimates of attributable mortality are based on disease-specific hazard ratio …

The health effects of air pollution have been subject to intense study in recent years.
Exposure to pollutants such as airborne participate matter and ozone has been associated …

Numerous time series studies around the world have reported an association between
mortality and particulate air pollution. We investigated the distribution over time of effect of …

In the comparative risk assessment (Lim et al. 2012), performed as part of the Global Burden
of Disease (GBD) 2010 Project, air pollution ranked as a leading contributor to the burden of …