Health benefits from the rapid reduction in ambient exposure to air pollutants after China's clean air actions: progress in efficacy and geographic equality.

ABSTRACT: Clean air actions (CAAs) in China have been linked to considerable benefits in public health. However, whether the beneficial effects of CAAs are equally distributed geographically is unknown. Using high-resolution maps of the distributions of major air pollutants (fine particulate matter [PM_2.5] and ozone [O₃]) and population, we aimed to track spatiotemporal changes in health impacts from, and geographic inequality embedded in, the reduced exposures to PM_2.5 and O₃ from 2013 to 2020. We used a method established by the Global Burden of Diseases Study. By analyzing the changes in loss of life expectancy (LLE) attributable to PM_2.5 and O₃, we calculated the gain of life expectancy (GLE) to quantify the health benefits of the

SUBMITTER: Xue T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10776362 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature