Choices Behind Numbers: a Review of the Major Air Pollution Health Impact Assessments in Europe.

ABSTRACT: PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The aim of this review is to identify the key contextual and methodological differences in health impact assessments (HIA) of ambient air pollution performed for Europe. We limited our review to multi-country reviews. An additional aim is to quantify some of these differences by applying them in a HIA template in three European cities. RECENT FINDINGS:Several HIAs of ambient air pollution have been performed for Europe, and their key results have been largely disseminated. Different studies have, however, come up with substantial differences in attributed health effects. It is of importance to review the background contributing to these differences and to quantify their importance for decision makers who will use them. We identified several methodological differences that

SUBMITTER: Malmqvist E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5876343 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature