A replicable strategy for mapping air pollution's community-level health impacts and catalyzing prevention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Air pollution was responsible for an estimated 6.7 million deaths globally in 2019 and 197,000 deaths in the United States. Fossil fuel combustion is the major source.

Hypothesis

Mapping air pollution's health impacts at the community level using publicly available data and open-source software will provide a replicable strategy for catalyzing pollution prevention.

Methods

Using EPA's Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis (BenMAP-CE) software and state data, we quantified the effects of airborne fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) pollution on disease, death and children's cognitive function (IQ Loss) in each city and town in Massachusetts. To develop a first-order estimate of PM_2.5 pollution's impact on child IQ, we derived a concen

SUBMITTER: Landrigan PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9288863 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature