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Air quality improvements and health benefits from China’s clean air action since 2013
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Aggressive emission control measures were taken by the Chinese government after the promulgation of the 'Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan' in 2013. Here we evaluated the air quality and health benefits associated with this stringent policy during 2013–2015 by using surface PM 2.5 concentrations estimated from a three-stage data fusion model and cause-specific integrated exposure–response functions. The population-weighted annual mean PM 2.5 concentrations decreased by 21.5% over China during 2013–2015, reducing from 60.5 in 2013 to 47.5 μg m −3 in 2015. Subsequently, the national PM 2.5 -attributable mortality decreased from 1.22 million (95% CI: 1.05, 1.37) in 2013 to 1.10 million (95% CI: 0.95, 1.25) in 2015, which is a 9.1% reduction. The limited health benefits compared to air quality improvements are mainly due to the supralinear responses of mortality to PM 2.5 over the high concentration end of the concentration–response functions. Our study affirms the effectiveness of China's recent air quality policy; however, due to the nonlinear responses of mortality to PM 2.5 variations, current policies should remain in place and more stringent measures should be implemented to protect public health.
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- Zheng, Y., Xue, T., Zhang, Q., Geng, G., Tong, D., Li, X., & He, K.
- Venue
- Environmental Research Letters
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2017-11-01
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 114020
- ISSN
- 1748-9326 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2766335895
- Cited by
- 296
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 14.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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