Application of DALYs in measuring health effect of ambient air pollution: a case study in Shanghai, China / 生物医学与环境科学（英文）

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate the effect of ambient air pollution on human health and the subsequent disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost in Shanghai.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>We used epidemiology-based exposure-response functions to calculate the attributable number of cases due to air pollution in Shanghai in 2000, and then we estimated the corresponding DALYs lost in Shanghai based on unit DALYs values of the health consequences.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Ambient air pollution caused 103,064 DALYs lost in Shanghai in 2000. Among all the health endpoints, premature deaths and chronic bronchitis predominated in the value of total DALYs lost.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The air pollution levels have an adverse effect on the general population health and strengthen the rationale for limiting the levels of air pollution in outdoor air in Shanghai.</p>

Establishment of exposure-response functions of air particulate matter and adverse health outcomes in China and worldwide / 生物医学与环境科学（英文）

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To obtain the exposure-response functions that could be used in health-based risk assessment of particulate air pollution in China.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Meta analysis was conducted on the literatures on air particulate matter and its adverse health outcomes in China and worldwide.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>For each health outcome from morbidity to mortality changes, the relative risks were estimated when the concentration of air particulate matter increased to some certain units.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The exposure-response functions recommended here can be further applied to health risk assessment of air particulate matter in China.</p>