Open AccessDisease Burden Attributable to PM2.5 Exposure in China from 2000 to 2016
Author(s) -
Ting Cao
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
proceedings of business and economic studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2209-265X
pISSN - 2209-2641
DOI - 10.26689/pbes.v4i4.2385
Subject(s) - china , environmental health , burden of disease , air pollution , public health , disease burden , disease , particulates , geography , medicine , socioeconomics , economics , population , chemistry , nursing , archaeology , organic chemistry , pathology , ecology , biology
Long-term exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) has slowly increased both the morbidity and mortality among Chinese people; becoming a leading problem for public health efforts. In this study, the exposure-response function was used to derive the spatial-temporal dynamics of disease burden attributable to PM2.5 pollution in China. It was found that the economic loss attributable to PM2.5 increased by 93% from 35 billion Chinese yuan to 536 billion Chinese yuan within the period of 16 years. Digging further, a substantiate level of regional differences was discovered with the disease burden being the most severe in East China and the least severe in Northwest China. This article can provide more insights for future air pollution control in China.