ReviewPublic health reviews2024
Two Decades of Air Pollution Health Risk Assessment: Insights From the Use of WHO's AirQ and AirQ+ Tools.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Air Pollution, Temperature, and Demographic Vulnerability as Determinants of Cause-Specific Mortality in Portugal.Journal of xenobiotics · 2026Article
- Estimated mortality attributable to ambient PMScientific reports · 2026Article
- Air Pollution, COVID-19-related Air-quality Changes, and Premature Mortality in Türkiye (2019-2023).Thoracic research and practice · 2026Article
- Long-term trends, health impacts, and economic costs of PM₂.₅ in Khorramabad, Iran (2014-2023).BMC public health · 2026Article
- Burden of disease attributable to PMEnvironmental health : a global access science source · 2025Article
- Estimating health and economic burden of PMScientific reports · 2025Article
- Assessment of disease burden and mortality attributable to air pollutants in northwestern Iran using the AirQ+ software.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Vertical distribution of ambient air pollutants (PMHeliyon · 2024Article
- Estimating the burden of diseases attributed to PMScientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Objectives: We evaluated studies that used the World Health Organization's (WHO) AirQ and AirQ+ tools for air pollution (AP) health risk assessment (HRA) and provided best practice suggestions for future assessments. Methods: We performed a comprehensive review of studies using WHO's AirQ and AirQ+ tools, searching several databases for relevant articles, reports, and theses from inception to Dec 31, 2022. Results: We identified 286 studies that met our criteria. The studies were conducted in 69 countries, with most (57%) in Iran, followed by Italy and India (∼8% each). We found that many studies inadequately report air pollution exposure data, its quality, and validity. The decisions concerning the analysed population size, health outcomes of interest, baseline incidence, concentration-response functions, relative risk values, and counterfactual values are often not justified, sufficiently. Many studies lack an uncertainty assessment. Conclusion: Our review found a number of common shortcomings in the published assessments. We suggest better practices and urge future studies to focus on the quality of input data, its reporting, and associated uncertainties.
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