Changes in life expectancy of respiratory diseases from attaining daily PM2. 5 standard in China: a nationwide observational study

Y Yang, J Qi, Z Ruan, P Yin, S Zhang, J Liu, Y Liu, R Li… - The Innovation, 2020 - cell.com
Although exposure to air pollution increases the risk of premature mortality and years of life
lost (YLL), the effects of daily air quality improvement to the life expectancy of respiratory …

Changing risk factors that contribute to premature mortality from ambient air pollution between 2000 and 2015

S Chowdhury, A Pozzer, S Dey… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Exposure to ambient air pollution is a major global health risk factor. Using recently updated
hazard ratio functions, we estimate that the global premature mortality burden attributable to …

COVID-19 higher mortality in Chinese regions with chronic exposure to lower air quality

R Pansini, D Fornacca - Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We investigated the geographical character of the COVID-19 infection in China and
correlated it with satellite-and ground-based measurements of air quality. Controlling for …

Health impacts of air pollution exposure from 1990 to 2019 in 43 European countries

A Juginović, M Vuković, I Aranza, V Biloš - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Air pollution is the fourth greatest overall risk factor for human health. Despite declining
levels in Europe, air pollution still represents a major health and economic burden. We …

Air pollution in China: status and spatiotemporal variations

C Song, L Wu, Y Xie, J He, X Chen, T Wang, Y Lin… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent years, China has experienced severe and persistent air pollution associated with
rapid urbanization and climate change. Three years' time series (January 2014 to December …

WHO introduces ambitious new air quality guidelines

T Burki - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
An estimated 7 million people die every year as a result of exposure to air pollution, the
overwhelming majority of whom live in low-income and middle-income countries. Health …

The global burden of disease due to outdoor air pollution

AJ Cohen, H Ross Anderson, B Ostro… - Journal of Toxicology …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
As part of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Burden of Disease Comparative
Risk Assessment, the burden of disease attributable to urban ambient air pollution was …

Evaluating impacts of air pollution in China on public health: implications for future air pollution and energy policies

X Wang, DL Mauzerall - Atmospheric Environment, 2006 - Elsevier
Our objective is to establish the link between energy consumption and technologies, air
pollution concentrations, and resulting impacts on public health in eastern China. We use …

Air pollution and health

PJ Landrigan - The Lancet Public Health, 2017 - thelancet.com
Air pollution is one of the great killers of our age. Polluted air was responsible in 2015 for 6·
4 million deaths worldwide: 2· 8 million from household air pollution and 4· 2 million from …

Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

JB Soriano, PJ Kendrick, KR Paulson… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Previous attempts to characterise the burden of chronic respiratory diseases
have focused only on specific disease conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary …