ArticleIranian journal of public health2012
Air pollution, its mortality risk, and economic impacts in tehran, iran.
Article in Iranian journal of public health, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Estimation of mortality and economic burden attributable to ground-level OBMC public health · 2026Article
- Health system performance in Iran: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.Lancet (London, England) · 2022Article
- Estimation of economic costs of air pollution caused by motor vehicles in Iran (Isfahan).Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Article
- Impact assessment of meteorological and environmental parameters on PMEnvironmental science and pollution research international · 2019Article
- Epigenetic Alterations and Exposure to Air Pollutants: Protocol for a Birth Cohort Study to Evaluate the Association Between Adverse Birth Outcomes and Global DNA Methylation.JMIR research protocols · 2017Article
- Health Impact Assessment of Air Pollution in São Paulo, Brazil.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundAir pollution in Tehran is widely recognized as a serious environmental challenge, posing significant threats to the health of the resident population. Improving air quality will be difficult for many reasons, including climate and topography, heavy dependence on motor vehicles for mobility, and limited resources to reduce polluting emissions. Consequently, it is useful to have information regarding the scale of the health threat and the economic value of reducing that threat.
methodsThis paper integrates information on air quality, population, economic valuation, and health science to assess the most serious impact of fine particle pollution on humans, which is increased mortality risk, and provides estimates of the costs of present pollution levels, both in terms of risk and in terms of economic value relative to attaining air quality standards.
resultsMid-range results indicate that mortality risk for the population aged 30 and over would be reduced from 8.2 per 1,000 residents annually to 7.4 per 1,000 and that the estimated annual economic benefits of this reduced risk would be $378.5 million, if health-based World Health Organization-recommended annual average PM(2.5) standards were met.
conclusionsThe potential public health benefits of reducing particulate air pollution are significant, and will increase with growing population.
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