Resource allocation for mitigating regional air pollution-related mortality: A summertime case study for five cities in the United States.

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An important issue of regional air quality management is to allocate air quality management funds to maximize environmental and human health benefits. In this study, we use an innovative approach to tackle this air quality management issue. We develop an innovative resource allocation model that allows identification of air pollutant emission control strategies that maximize mortality avoidances subject to a resource constraint. We first present the development of the resource allocation model and then a case study to show how the model can be used to identify resource allocation strategies that maximize mortality avoidances for top five Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) (i.e., New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Philadelphia) in the continental Un

SUBMITTER: Liao KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4960509 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature