Ambient Air Pollution and Its Impact on Public Health: Perspectives and Advances in Estimating Associated Costs
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (18 August 2022) | Viewed by 525
Special Issue Editors
Interests: air pollution; health impact assessment; burden of diseases; health costs
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Interests: air pollution; environmental pathology; toxicology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ambient air pollution is widely considered responsible for millions of deaths and years of healthy life lost annually. Diseases attributable to air pollution negatively impact the economic sphere by reducing productivity and labor supply, increasing the burden of health-care expenditures, and causing loss of well-being.
Considering that the current world population is predominantly urban (about 55% of the total population) and therefore is daily exposed to high levels of air pollutants, air quality control is not an expenditure but an essential investment to avoid substantial economic losses and to promote global health.
Therefore, innovative approaches that assess the impacts caused by exposure to air pollution, considering economic, social, and health aspects in an integrated manner, can significantly contribute to moving towards a sustainable, resilient, and healthy society.
Accordingly, this Special Issue aims to showcase the most recent findings on new approaches for estimating, modeling, and forecasting air pollution exposure and its impacts on human health, considering both socioeconomic and epidemiological perspectives. Discussions of trends in potential policies for promoting public health concerning a clean air are encouraged.
Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, the following:
- reducing health disparities of air pollution;
- innovative econometric analyses for air pollution and health impacts;
- air pollution in urban and industrial areas and its impacts on health;
- emerging economies, clean energy transition, and health goals;
- environmental, economic, and financial implications of air pollution;
- public health threats of anthropogenic climate change;
- air pollution in a post-COVID-19 world;
- health impact assessment experiences for estimating air pollution;
- air pollution burden of diseases analyzes;
- cost–benefit of air pollution policies aiming to minimize health effects
Dr. Simone Georges El Khouri Miraglia
Dr. Mariana Veras
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- air pollution
- human health
- health effects
- environmental exposure
- air pollution and public health
- air quality and human exposure
- health impact assessment
- anthropogenic emissions
- urban atmospheric aerosols
- health economics
- health costs
