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- Title
Economic Loss Assessment of Health Damage Caused by Air Pollutants in Qingdao from 2014 to 2022.
- Authors
WANG Meng; LYU Manqing; ZHOU Xuedong; WEI Fenghua; SHI Yan; CUI Lijiang; WU Yan
- Abstract
Choosing the coastal city Qingdao as the research object, this study evaluated the economic loss assessment of health damage caused by air pollutants in Qingdao from 2014 to 2022 based on a poisson regression relative risk estimation model, in order to reveal the relationship between major air pollutants and urban economic development. Overall, it was found that the health damage caused by air pollution decreases year by year over the nine-year period, and the ratios of economic loss value of the targeted three air pollutants to the GDP of Qingdao decreased in different degrees. In 2014, the health economic losses caused by PM2.5, NO2 and O3 were RMB 30.898 billion, RMB 26.985 billion and RMB 15.257 billion, respectively. And their ratios to GDP were 3.80%, 3.32% and 1.88%, respectively. In 2022, due to the increase in residents' medical expenses and labor costs, the health economic losses caused by these three air pollutants were 26.090 billion yuan, 27.474 billion yuan and 33.060 billion yuan respectively, generally slightly higher than the assessment data in 2014. However, the economic value of health damage caused by PM2.5 and NO2 accounted for 1.75% and 1.84% of GDP in 2022, which were reduced by 53.9%, 44.6% compared to the values in 2014. Through economic loss assessment, this study found that the health terminals most affected by PM2.5 were outpatient and chronic bronchitis, while the health terminals most affected by NO2 and O3 pollutants were inpatients with circulatory system diseases and all-cause deaths. This investigation can not only provide a theoretical reference for the control of priority pollutants in air pollution prevention and control, but also an assessment method for evaluating the effectiveness of policies and routes to reduce emissions of target pollutants.
- Subjects
QINGDAO (China); AIR pollutants; AIR pollution prevention; AIR pollution; URBAN community development; AIR pollution control; PARTICULATE matter; CHRONIC bronchitis
- Publication
Environmental Science & Technology (10036504), 2023, Vol 46, Issue 12, p203
- ISSN
1003-6504
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19672/j.cnki.1003-6504.1155.23.338