Non-negligible contributions to human health from increased household air pollution exposure during the COVID-19 lockdown in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ambient and household air pollution are found to lead to premature deaths from all-cause or cause-specific death. The national lockdown measures in China during COVID-19 were found to lead to abrupt changes in ambient surface air quality, but indoor air quality changes were neglected. In this study, we aim to investigate the impacts of lockdown measures on both ambient and household air pollution as well as the short-term health effects of air pollution changes.

Methods

In this study, an up-to-date emission inventory from January to March 2020 in China was developed based on air quality observations in combination with emission-concentration response functions derived from chemical transport modeling. These emission inventories, together with the emissions data fr

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8502102 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature