New Insights for Tracking Global and Local Trends in Exposure to Air Pollutants.

ABSTRACT: Over six million people die prematurely each year from exposure to air pollution. Current air quality metrics insufficiently monitor exposure to air pollutants. This gap hinders the ability of decisionmakers to address the public health impacts of air pollution. To spur new emissions control policies and ensure implemented solutions realize meaningful gains in environmental health, we develop a framework of public-health-focused air quality indicators that quantifies over 200 countries' trends in exposure to particulate matter, ozone, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and volatile organic compounds. We couple population density to ground-level pollutant concentrations to derive population-weighted exposure metrics that quantify the pollutant levels experienced by the averag

SUBMITTER: Wolf MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8988294 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature