Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18041935
Keywords
air pollution exposure; health risk; air pollution aseessment tools; concentration-response functions
Funding
- Kyushu Natural Energy Promotion Organization
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Air pollution is a significant public health issue, with health risk assessment playing a key role in promoting individual and global health as well as disease prevention. This paper provides an in-depth exploration of the concept and implementation of Air Pollution Health Risk Assessment (AP-HRA), as well as a comparative analysis of seven widely used AP-HRA tools.
Air pollution is a major public health problem. A significant number of epidemiological studies have found a correlation between air quality and a wide variety of adverse health impacts emphasizing a considerable role of air pollution in the disease burden in the general population ranging from subclinical effects to premature death. Health risk assessment of air quality can play a key role at individual and global health promotion and disease prevention levels. The Air Pollution Health Risk Assessment (AP-HRA) forecasts the expected health effect of policies impacting air quality under the various policy, environmental and socio-economic circumstances, making it a key tool for guiding public policy decisions. This paper presents the concept of AP-HRA and offers an outline for the proper conducting of AP-HRA for different scenarios, explaining in broad terms how the health hazards of air emissions and their origins are measured and how air pollution-related impacts are quantified. In this paper, seven widely used AP-HRA tools will be deeply explored, taking into account their spatial resolution, technological factors, pollutants addressed, geographical scale, quantified health effects, method of classification, and operational characteristics. Finally, a comparative analysis of the proposed tools will be conducted, using the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) method.
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