Abstract
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, geograph-ical 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, weak-nesses, opportunities, and threats) method.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1935 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-29 |
Number of pages | 29 |
Journal | International journal of environmental research and public health |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2 2021 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Pollution
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis