Assessment of health impacts and costs attributable to air pollution in urban areas using two different approaches. A case study in the Western Balkans.

Air pollution Cities External costs Health impact assessment Inequalities PM(2.5)

Journal

Environment international
ISSN: 1873-6750
Titre abrégé: Environ Int
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 7807270

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Dec 2023
Historique:
received: 24 03 2023
revised: 12 10 2023
accepted: 21 11 2023
pubmed: 29 11 2023
medline: 29 11 2023
entrez: 28 11 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

In this study, two different air quality impact assessment methodologies were adopted and combined with a sensitivity analysis to estimate the unit costs. Air pollution health impact (mortality) assessment was carried out using one methodology based on log-linear concentration response functions (CRF) and another relying on the integrated exposure response curve (IER) from the Global Burden of Disease. Morbidity impacts were estimated with the CRF approach only. To assess the inequalities between low and high income countries, an area of low-medium income countries with a critical air pollution situation, was selected. The health impact and related external costs attributable to air pollution in 2019 were assessed in 30 urban areas of the Western Balkans region, one of Europe's air pollution hot spots. The evaluation was based on PM

Identifiants

pubmed: 38016386
pii: S0160-4120(23)00620-7
doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2023.108347
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Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

108347

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

Claudio A Belis (CA)

European Commission, Joint Research Centre, via Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra, Italy. Electronic address: claudio.belis@ec.europa.eu.

Vlatka Matkovic (V)

EUPHA Environment and Health Section, 3500 BN Utrecht, the Netherlands; Health and Environment Alliance, Avenue des Arts 7/8 1210 Brussels, Belgium.

Marta Ballocci (M)

European Commission, Joint Research Centre, via Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra, Italy; University School for Advanced Studies Pavia, Piazza della Vittoria 15, 27100, Pavia, Italy; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy.

Marija Jevtic (M)

University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Public Health of Vojvodina, Hajduk Veljkova 3, 21102 Novi Sad, Serbia; Université Libre de Bruxelles, Research Centre on Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Belgium.

Giovanni Millo (G)

University of Trieste, Piazzale Europa 1, 34127 Trieste, Italy.

Elida Mata (E)

Department of Public Health Risk Assessment, Public Health Institute, Rr. A. Moisiu 80, Tirana, Albania.

Rita Van Dingenen (R)

European Commission, Joint Research Centre, via Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra, Italy.

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