Premature Adult Mortality and Years of Life Lost Attributed to Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Particulate Matter Pollution and Potential for Mitigating Adverse Health Effects in Tuzla and Lukavac, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ambient air pollution is one of eight global risk factors for deaths and accounts for 38.44 all causes death rates attributable to ambient PM pollution, while in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is 58.37. We have estimated health endpoints and possible gains if two policy scenarios were implemented and ai...

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Published in:Atmosphere 2020-10, Vol.11 (10), p.1107
Main Authors: Matkovic, Vlatka, Mulić, Maida, Azabagić, Selma, Jevtić, Marija
Format: Article
Language:English
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Access to information
Age
Air pollution
Air pollution control
air pollution reduction
Air quality
Altitude
Cities
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Datasets
health impact assessment
Health risks
Legislation
Life expectancy
Life span
Mortality
outdoor air pollution
Outdoor air quality
Pandemics
Particulate emissions
Particulate matter
Policies
Pollution data
Population
Public health
Risk analysis
Risk factors
Suspended particulate matter
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Summary:Ambient air pollution is one of eight global risk factors for deaths and accounts for 38.44 all causes death rates attributable to ambient PM pollution, while in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is 58.37. We have estimated health endpoints and possible gains if two policy scenarios were implemented and air pollution reduction achieved. Real-world health and recorded PM pollution data for 2018 were used for assessing the health impacts and possible gains. Calculations were performed with WHO AirQ+ software against two scenarios with cut-off levels at country-legal values and WHO air quality recommendations. Ambient PM2.5 pollution is responsible for 16.20% and 22.77% of all-cause mortality among adults in Tuzla and Lukavac, respectively. Our data show that life expectancy could increase by 2.1 and 2.4 years for those cities. In the pollution hotspots, in reality, there is a wide gap in what is observed and the implementation of the legally binding air quality limit values and, thus, adverse health effects. Considerable health gains and life expectancy are possible if legal or health scenarios in polluted cities were achieved. This estimate might be useful in providing additional health burden evidence as a key component for a clean air policy and action plans.
ISSN:2073-4433
2073-4433
DOI:10.3390/atmos11101107