The health policy implications of individual adaptive behavior responses to smog pollution in urban China
Smog pollution is a serious public health issue in urban China, where it is associated with public health through a range of respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses. Despite the negative health impacts of smog pollution, individual adaptive behaviors are poorly understood. This knowledge gap hinder...
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Published in | Environment international Vol. 106; pp. 144 - 152 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Netherlands
Elsevier Ltd
01.09.2017
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Summary: | Smog pollution is a serious public health issue in urban China, where it is associated with public health through a range of respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses. Despite the negative health impacts of smog pollution, individual adaptive behaviors are poorly understood. This knowledge gap hinders the development of effective public policy to support and encourage the adoption of individual adaptive and mitigating behaviors to smog pollution. A questionnaire survey of 1141 randomly sampled individuals in a typical PM2.5-polluted Chinese city was designed to establish smog concerns and behavior changes during smog events. The results demonstrate a variety of behavior responses associated with risk perception, experience of smog, age, and gender of respondents. An understanding of these variations is critical to the development of effective public policy and ultimately to the improvement of public health in cities affected by smog.
•We address current knowledge gaps related to individual adaptation to smog pollution events.•Different categories of response behaviors could be driven by different factors.•The first known support for key information to help policy makers design improved behavioral intervention strategies. |
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ISSN: | 0160-4120 1873-6750 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.envint.2017.06.010 |