ArticleAtmosphere2020
Quantifying the Public Health Benefits of Reducing Air Pollution: Critically Assessing the Features and Capabilities of WHO's AirQ+ and U.S. EPA's Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program - Community Edition (BenMAP - CE).
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Emission reduction strategies and health: a systematic review on the tools and methods to assess co-benefits.BMJ open · 2024Pooled it
- Health and economic benefits of meeting WHO air quality guidelines, Western Pacific Region.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2023Pooled it
- Impact of PMJournal of environmental health science & engineering · 2026Article
- Use of public health benefits to design air pollution emission abatement strategies.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Estimation of mortality and economic burden attributable to ground-level OBMC public health · 2026Article
- Long-term trends, health impacts, and economic costs of PM₂.₅ in Khorramabad, Iran (2014-2023).BMC public health · 2026Article
- Assessment of disease burden and mortality attributable to air pollutants in northwestern Iran using the AirQ+ software.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Health and Economic Impact Estimation of Ambient Air Particulate Matter (PMEnvironmental health insights · 2025Article
- The level, source, and health outcome of PMToxicology reports · 2024Article
- Estimating the health impacts of exposure to Air pollutants and the evaluation of changes in their concentration using a linear model in Iran.Toxicology reports · 2024Article
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- Two Decades of Air Pollution Health Risk Assessment: Insights From the Use of WHO's AirQ and AirQ+ Tools.Public health reviews · 2024Review
- Health Risk Assessment of Exposure to Air Pollutants Exceeding the New WHO Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) in São Paulo, Brazil.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Estimation of health-related and economic impacts of PM2.5 in Arak, Iran, using BenMAP-CE.PloS one · 2023Article
- Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the National Clean Air Programme in Terms of Health Impacts from Exposure to PM2.5 and NOInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Monetary Benefits of Reducing Emissions of Dioxin-like Compounds-Century Poisons-Over Half a Century: Evaluation of the Benefit per Ton Method.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Indoor Air Pollution Exposure of Women in Adama, Ethiopia, and Assessment of Disease Burden Attributable to Risk Factor.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Air Pollution Health Risk Assessment (AP-HRA), Principles and Applications.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
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Abstract
Scientific evidence spanning experimental and epidemiologic studies has shown that air pollution exposures can lead to a range of health effects. Quantitative approaches that allow for the estimation of the adverse health impacts attributed to air pollution enable researchers and policy analysts to convey the public health impact of poor air quality. Multiple tools are currently available to conduct such analyses, which includes software packages designed by the World Health Organization (WHO): AirQ+, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA): Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program - Community Edition (BenMAP - CE), to quantify the number and economic value of air pollution-attributable premature deaths and illnesses. WHO's AirQ+ and U.S. EPA's BenMAP - CE are among the most popular tools to quantify these effects as reflected by the hundreds of peer-reviewed publications and technical reports over the past two decades that have employed these tools spanning many countries and multiple continents. Within this paper we conduct an analysis using common input parameters to compare AirQ+ and BenMAP - CE and show that the two software packages well align in the calculation of health impacts. Additionally, we detail the research questions best addressed by each tool.
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