ArticleThe European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care2016
The hidden economic burden of air pollution-related morbidity: evidence from the Aphekom project.
Article in The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Air Pollution Health Risk Assessment (AP-HRA), Principles and Applications.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
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- Adolescent Haze-Related Knowledge Level Study: A Cross-Sectional Survey With Sensitivity Analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2020Article
- Developing and Testing the Reliability and Validity of the Brief Haze Weather Health Protection Behavior Assessment Scale-Adolescent Version (BHWHPBAS-AV).Frontiers in pediatrics · 2020Article
- Development and testing of the reliability and validity of the adolescent haze related knowledge awareness assessment scale (AHRKAAS).BMC public health · 2018Article
- Calculation of the disease burden associated with environmental chemical exposures: application of toxicological information in health economic estimation.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2017Review
- Costs of coronary heart disease and mortality associated with near-roadway air pollution.The Science of the total environment · 2017Article
- Health Impact Assessment of Air Pollution in São Paulo, Brazil.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Article
- Short-Term Fluctuations in Air Pollution and Asthma in Scania, Sweden. Is the Association Modified by Long-Term Concentrations?PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
Public decision-makers commonly use health impact assessments (HIA) to quantify the impacts of various regulation policies. However, standard HIAs do not consider that chronic diseases (CDs) can be both caused and exacerbated by a common factor, and generally focus on exacerbations. As an illustration, exposure to near road traffic-related pollution (NRTP) may affect the onset of CDs, and general ambient or urban background air pollution (BP) may exacerbate these CDs. We propose a comprehensive HIA that explicitly accounts for both the acute effects and the long-term effects, making it possible to compute the overall burden of disease attributable to air pollution. A case study applies the two HIA methods to two CDs-asthma in children and coronary heart disease (CHD) in adults over 65-for ten European cities, totaling 1.89 million 0-17-year-old children and 1.85 million adults aged 65 and over. We compare the current health effects with those that might, hypothetically, be obtained if exposure to NRTP was equally low for those living close to busy roads as it is for those living farther away, and if annual mean concentrations of both PM
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