Estimation of PM2.5 Concentration Efficiency and Potential Public Mortality Reduction in Urban China.

ABSTRACT: The particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) is a serious air-pollutant emission in China, which has caused serious risks to public health. To reduce the pollution and corresponding public mortality, this paper proposes a method by incorporating slacks-based data envelopment analysis (DEA) and an integrated exposure risk (IER) model. By identifying the relationship between the PM2.5 concentration and mortality, the potential PM2.5 concentration efficiency and mortality reduction were measured. The proposed method has been applied to China's 243 cities in 2015. Some implications are achieved. (1) There are urban disparities in estimated results around China. The geographic distribution of urban mortality reduction is consistent with that of the PM2.5 concentration efficiency, but some inconsistency a

SUBMITTER: Yu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5877074 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature