New WHO global air quality guidelines help prevent premature deaths in China.
Tao XueGuannan GengXia MengQingyang XiaoYixuan ZhengJicheng GongJun LiuWei WanQiang ZhangHaidong KanShiqiu ZhangTong ZhuPublished in: National science review (2022)
The World Health Organization has issued new air quality guidelines (AQG). Based on 2020 data, achieving the new AQG for PM2.5 could prevent an additional 285,000 chronic deaths and 13,000 acute deaths, across China, compared with the previous AQG. The new AQG can better protect health but cannot be achieved without coordinated air-pollution-control and climate-mitigation efforts.
Keyphrases
- air pollution
- climate change
- particulate matter
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- drug induced
- heavy metals
- respiratory failure
- electronic health record
- intensive care unit
- health information
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- hepatitis b virus
- cystic fibrosis
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