Health benefits from risk information of air pollution in China.

ABSTRACT: Risk-related information regarding air pollution can help people understand the risk involved and take preventive measures to reduce health loss. However, the health benefits through these protective behaviors and the health threat of information inequality have not been systematically measured. This article reports the health gains and losses caused by the interaction of "air pollution-air pollution information-human", and studies the heterogeneity and impact of this interaction. Based on field investigations and transfer learning algorism, this study compiled the first nationwide city-level risk-related information (ERI) response parameter set in China. Then, we developed a Information-Behavioral Equivalent PM_2.5 Exposure Model (I-BEPEM) model to project the health benefits ca

SUBMITTER: Wang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10507042 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature