Estimating adult mortality attributable to PM2.5 exposure in China with assimilated PM2.5 concentrations based on a ground monitoring network

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 568, Issue , 2016, Pages 1253-1262

  Liu, Jun ^a   Han, Yiqun ^a   Tang, Xiao ^b   Zhu, Jiang ^b   Zhu, Tong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Attributable mortalities; Data assimilation; Integrated exposure response model; Monitoring network; PM2.5

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; HEALTH RISKS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PULMONARY DISEASES;

ATTRIBUTABLE MORTALITIES; DATA ASSIMILATION; MONITORING NETWORK; PM2.5; RESPONSE MODEL;

POLLUTION CONTROL;

ADULT; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY RISK; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AIR QUALITY; AIR QUALITY GUIDELINE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; MORTALITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION DENSITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STANDARDIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOXICITY; VERY ELDERLY;

CHINA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84989942553     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.165     Document Type: Article

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