PM2.5-related health and economic loss assessment for 338 Chinese cities

• Published in: Environment international Vol. 121; no. Pt 1; pp. 392 - 403
• Main Authors: Maji, Kamal Jyoti, Ye, Wei-Feng, Arora, Mohit, Shiva Nagendra, S.M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2018; Elsevier
• Subjects: air pollution; air quality; asthma; bronchitis; China; cities; cost of illness analysis; Economic loss; financial economics; health hazards; hospitals; industrialization; issues and policy; Long-term mortality; Morbidity; mortality; particulates; Spatial distributions of PM2.5; urbanization; willingness to pay; China; Long-term mortality; Spatial distributions of PM2.5; Economic loss; China; Morbidity

China is in a critical stage of ambient air quality management after global attention on pollution in its cities. Industrial development and urbanization have led to alarming levels of air pollution with serious health hazards in densely populated cities. The quantification of cause-specific PM2.5-r...