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Health impact assessment of air pollution in megacity of Tehran, Iran
The aims of the present study were to provide quantitative data on the impact of air pollution on the health of people living in Tehran city, the most populated city of Iran. The approach proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) was applied using the AirQ 2.2.3 software developed by the WHO E...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3561072/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23369114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1735-2746-9-28 |
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author | Naddafi, Kazem Hassanvand, Mohammad Sadegh Yunesian, Masud Momeniha, Fatemeh Nabizadeh, Ramin Faridi, Sasan Gholampour, Akbar |
author_facet | Naddafi, Kazem Hassanvand, Mohammad Sadegh Yunesian, Masud Momeniha, Fatemeh Nabizadeh, Ramin Faridi, Sasan Gholampour, Akbar |
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description | The aims of the present study were to provide quantitative data on the impact of air pollution on the health of people living in Tehran city, the most populated city of Iran. The approach proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) was applied using the AirQ 2.2.3 software developed by the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Bilthoven Division. Concentrations of ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and particulate matter of aerodynamic diameter ≤ 10 μm (PM(10)) were used to assess human exposure and health impacts in terms of attributable proportion of the health outcome, annual number of excess cases of mortality for all causes, and cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The annual average of PM(10), SO(2), NO(2) and O(3) in Tehran were 90.58, 89.16, 85 and 68.82 μg/m(3), respectively. Considering short-term effects, PM(10) had the highest health impact on the 8,700,000 inhabitants of Tehran city, causing an excess of total mortality of 2194 out of 47284 in a year. Sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone caused about, respectively, 1458, 1050 and 819 excess cases of total mortality. Results indicate that the magnitude of the health impact estimated for the city of Tehran underscores the need for urgent action to reduce the health burden of air pollution. |
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spelling | pubmed-35610722013-02-05 Health impact assessment of air pollution in megacity of Tehran, Iran Naddafi, Kazem Hassanvand, Mohammad Sadegh Yunesian, Masud Momeniha, Fatemeh Nabizadeh, Ramin Faridi, Sasan Gholampour, Akbar Iranian J Environ Health Sci Eng Research Article The aims of the present study were to provide quantitative data on the impact of air pollution on the health of people living in Tehran city, the most populated city of Iran. The approach proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) was applied using the AirQ 2.2.3 software developed by the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Bilthoven Division. Concentrations of ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and particulate matter of aerodynamic diameter ≤ 10 μm (PM(10)) were used to assess human exposure and health impacts in terms of attributable proportion of the health outcome, annual number of excess cases of mortality for all causes, and cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The annual average of PM(10), SO(2), NO(2) and O(3) in Tehran were 90.58, 89.16, 85 and 68.82 μg/m(3), respectively. Considering short-term effects, PM(10) had the highest health impact on the 8,700,000 inhabitants of Tehran city, causing an excess of total mortality of 2194 out of 47284 in a year. Sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone caused about, respectively, 1458, 1050 and 819 excess cases of total mortality. Results indicate that the magnitude of the health impact estimated for the city of Tehran underscores the need for urgent action to reduce the health burden of air pollution. BioMed Central 2012-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3561072/ /pubmed/23369114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1735-2746-9-28 Text en Copyright ©2012 Naddafi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Naddafi, Kazem Hassanvand, Mohammad Sadegh Yunesian, Masud Momeniha, Fatemeh Nabizadeh, Ramin Faridi, Sasan Gholampour, Akbar Health impact assessment of air pollution in megacity of Tehran, Iran |
title | Health impact assessment of air pollution in megacity of Tehran, Iran |
title_full | Health impact assessment of air pollution in megacity of Tehran, Iran |
title_fullStr | Health impact assessment of air pollution in megacity of Tehran, Iran |
title_full_unstemmed | Health impact assessment of air pollution in megacity of Tehran, Iran |
title_short | Health impact assessment of air pollution in megacity of Tehran, Iran |
title_sort | health impact assessment of air pollution in megacity of tehran, iran |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3561072/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23369114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1735-2746-9-28 |
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