Quantifying the health impacts of ambient air pollutants: recommendations of a WHO/Europe project

Marie-Eve Héroux; H Ross Anderson; Richard Atkinson; Bert Brunekreef; Aaron Cohen; Francesco Forastiere; Fintan Hurley; Klea Katsouyanni; Daniel Krewski; Michal Krzyzanowski; Nino Künzli; Inga Mills; Xavier Querol; Bart Ostro; Heather Walton

doi:10.1007/s00038-015-0690-y

Quantifying the health impacts of ambient air pollutants: recommendations of a WHO/Europe project

Marie-Eve Héroux
, H Ross Anderson
, Richard Atkinson
, Bert Brunekreef
, Aaron Cohen
, Francesco Forastiere
, Fintan Hurley
, Klea Katsouyanni
, Daniel Krewski
, Michal Krzyzanowski
, Nino Künzli
, Inga Mills
, Xavier Querol
, Bart Ostro
, Heather Walton

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Quantitative estimates of air pollution health impacts have become an increasingly critical input to policy decisions. The WHO project "Health risks of air pollution in Europe-HRAPIE" was implemented to provide the evidence-based concentration-response functions for quantifying air pollution health impacts to support the 2013 revision of the air quality policy for the European Union (EU).

METHODS: A group of experts convened by WHO Regional Office for Europe reviewed the accumulated primary research evidence together with some commissioned reviews and recommended concentration-response functions for air pollutant-health outcome pairs for which there was sufficient evidence for a causal association.

RESULTS: The concentration-response functions link several indicators of mortality and morbidity with short- and long-term exposure to particulate matter, ozone and nitrogen dioxide. The project also provides guidance on the use of these functions and associated baseline health information in the cost-benefit analysis.

CONCLUSIONS: The project results provide the scientific basis for formulating policy actions to improve air quality and thereby reduce the burden of disease associated with air pollution in Europe.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	619-27
Number of pages	9
Journal	International Journal of Public Health
Volume	60
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-015-0690-y
Publication status	Published - Jul 2015

Keywords

Air pollutants
Health impact assessment
Cost–benefit analysis
Particulate matter
Ozone
Nitrogen dioxide

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Héroux, M.-E., Anderson, H. R., Atkinson, R., Brunekreef, B., Cohen, A., Forastiere, F., Hurley, F., Katsouyanni, K., Krewski, D., Krzyzanowski, M., Künzli, N., Mills, I., Querol, X., Ostro, B., & Walton, H. (2015). Quantifying the health impacts of ambient air pollutants: recommendations of a WHO/Europe project. International Journal of Public Health, 60(5), 619-27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-015-0690-y

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