ArticleEnvironmental health : a global access science source2022
A replicable strategy for mapping air pollution's community-level health impacts and catalyzing prevention.
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- Quantifying the association between PMEnvironmental health : a global access science source · 2024Pooled it
- Burden of cardiovascular disease attributed to air pollution: a systematic review.Globalization and health · 2024Pooled it
- The relationship between air pollution and police officers' mental health: an empirical analysis based on spatial econometric models.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Neighborhood environmental burden and the elderly's complete edentulism prevalence in the US.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The clinical, mechanistic, and social impacts of air pollution on atopic dermatitis.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2024Review
- [Climate change and (surgical) health in context].Chirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Review
- Air pollution, dementia, and lifespan in the socio-economic gradient of aging: perspective on human aging for planning future experimental studies.Frontiers in aging · 2023Article
- PMFrontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundAir pollution was responsible for an estimated 6.7 million deaths globally in 2019 and 197,000 deaths in the United States. Fossil fuel combustion is the major source. HYPOTHESIS: Mapping air pollution's health impacts at the community level using publicly available data and open-source software will provide a replicable strategy for catalyzing pollution prevention.
methodsUsing EPA's Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis (BenMAP-CE) software and state data, we quantified the effects of airborne fine particulate matter (PM
findingsThe annual mean PM
conclusionDisease, death and IQ loss occur at air pollution exposure levels below current EPA standards. Prevention of disease and premature death and preservation of children's cognitive function will require that EPA air quality standards be tightened. Enduring prevention will require government-incentivized transition to renewable energy coupled with phase-outs of subsidies and tax breaks for fossil fuels. Highly localized information on air pollution's impacts on health and on children's cognitive function has potential to catalyze pollution prevention.
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