Pricing air pollution: evidence from short-term exposure to air pollution on hospitalization of acute bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in southwestern China.

ABSTRACT: Existing evidence suggests that ambient air pollution has serious adverse effects on respiratory diseases, yet there is little direct evidence from China regarding corresponding economic losses. Here we quantified air pollution-related acute health effects and related economic losses of the most common two respiratory diseases in southwestern China, acute bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We applied a distributed lag non-linear model to analyse the relationship between ambient air pollutants and hospital admissions of acute bronchitis and COPD, then applied the cost of illness method to explore the attributing economic burden. During the study period, 528 334 and 99 419 hospital admissions of acute bronchitis and COPD, respectively, were recorded. As a result, du

SUBMITTER: Zhang P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9623494 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature