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Air Pollution And Life Expectancy, Zoë Kelly
Air Pollution And Life Expectancy, Zoë Kelly
Sacred Heart University Scholar
This article explores the effect of air pollution on life expectancy. While prior studies heavily supported the link between long-term exposure to air pollution and harmful effects on health, most are based on single-country data. The objective of this article is to fill the gap in the literature by conducting a cross-country analysis. It evaluates the effect of average air pollution on life expectancy across 111 countries between 2010 and 2015. The additional country-specific control variables that are used include GDP (Gross Domestic Product) per capita, percentage of people with access to water, population density, health care expenditure (in terms …
Analysis Of Air Quality Impacts On Human Health Using The Geoinformatics Application: Chiang Rai Province, Anuttara Hongthong, Yanasinee Suma, Nittaya Pasukphun, Vivat Keawdounglek
Analysis Of Air Quality Impacts On Human Health Using The Geoinformatics Application: Chiang Rai Province, Anuttara Hongthong, Yanasinee Suma, Nittaya Pasukphun, Vivat Keawdounglek
Applied Environmental Research
This research aims to study air pollution dispersion in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. The relationship between air pollutants, meteorology and population health were considered. The levels of air pollutants were used to establish a spatial and temporal analysis by Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW) interpolation from Geographic Information Systems (GIS), involved with occurrences of disease cases in the study area. The average monthly air pollution data were collected from Thailand's Pollution Control Department and data on respiratory disease were collected from Chiang Rai Provincial Public Health Office during 2011 to 2014. The results indicated that monthly average PM10 concentrations started to …