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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 …