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Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Their Role in Human Health

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Air".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2023) | Viewed by 3644

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ruijing Ni

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Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
Interests: health impact of air pollution; interactions between air pollution, climate change and public health
Dr. Jingxu Wang

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Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
Interests: impact of air pollution on human health and climate change
Dr. Lulu Chen

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College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Interests: impact of air pollution on human health and climate change

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Air pollution and climate change are major environmental crises posing threats to public health. Moreover, the complicated interactions between the two risks may make them even more life-threatening. For example, air pollution can exacerbate climate change through optical properties and climate change can in turn deteriorate air quality. Understanding the past, current, and future scenarios of air pollution and climate change, as well as exploring their roles in human health, are crucial for avoiding potential health threats. Although great efforts have focused on improving our knowledge of the aforementioned research fields, many issues remain unresolved, e.g., the associations between air pollution exposure and health outcomes are still subject to large uncertainty, and the underlying mechanisms have yet to be fully identified. Furthermore, the concept of climate change and human health is new, so the corresponding knowledge is quite limited, as is the knowledge of health impacts involving interactions between air pollution and climate change. 

This Special Issue aims to gather studies on air pollution, climate change, and/or their impacts on public health, to achieve a better understanding of the potentially catastrophic environmental risk to human beings. Papers addressing issues related to any of these subject areas are welcome, including but not limited to research papers, reviews, and policy recommendations on the topics listed below: 

  • Epidemiological or experimental studies addressing the association between air pollution exposure/climate change and health outcomes;
  • The underlying mechanisms of health effects of air pollution/climate change;
  • Impacts of human activities (e.g., energy consumption, implement of emission reduction policy) on air quality/climate change and the associated health outcomes;
  • Roles of air pollutants (e.g., ozone, black carbon, and sulfate) in climate change (e.g., global warming, heat wave, extreme precipitation, droughts, and floods) and the resulting health threats;
  • Impacts of climate change on air quality and the associated health impacts, e.g., surge in hospitalization due to air pollution exacerbation, as a result of the frequent biomass burning in the context of global warming;
  • Interactions between air pollution and climate change and the associated health effects.

Dr. Ruijing Ni
Dr. Jingxu Wang
Dr. Lulu Chen
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • air pollution
  • air quality
  • climate change
  • extreme weather
  • global warming
  • health impact
  • heat wave
  • ozone
  • public health

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Mapping Health Fragility and Vulnerability in Air Pollution–Monitoring Networks in Dallas–Fort Worth
by Kari Northeim and Joseph R. Oppong
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 1807; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20031807 - 18 Jan 2023
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Environmental air pollution remains a major contributor to negative health outcomes and mortality, but the relationship between socially vulnerable populations and air pollution is not well understood. Although air pollution potentially affects everyone, the combination of underlying health, socioeconomic, and demographic factors exacerbate [...] Read more.
Environmental air pollution remains a major contributor to negative health outcomes and mortality, but the relationship between socially vulnerable populations and air pollution is not well understood. Although air pollution potentially affects everyone, the combination of underlying health, socioeconomic, and demographic factors exacerbate the impact for socially vulnerable population groups, and the United States Clean Air Act (CAA) describes an obligation to protect these populations. This paper seeks to understand how air pollution monitor placement strategies and policy may neglect social vulnerabilities and therefore potentially underestimate exposure burdens in vulnerable populations. Multivariate logistic regression models were used to assess the association between being in an ozone-monitored area or not on 15 vulnerability indicators. It was found that the odds of not being in an ozone-monitored area (not covered, outside) increased for the predictor mobile homes (OR = 4.831, 95% CI [2.500–9.338] and OR = 8.066, 95% CI [4.390–14.820] for the 10 and 20 km spatial units, respectively) and decreased for the predictor multiunit structures (OR = 0.281, 95% CI [0.281–0.548] and OR = 0.130, 95% CI [0.037, 0.457] for the 10 and 20 km spatial units, respectively) and the predictor speaks English “less than well” (OR = 0.521, 95% CI [0.292–0.931] for 10 km). These results indicate that existing pollution sensor coverage may neglect areas with concentrations of highly vulnerable populations in mobile homes, and future monitoring placement policy decisions must work to address this imbalance. Full article
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Environmental Status and Human Health: Evidence from China
by Suli Cheng, Zubing Xiang and Haojun Xi
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(19), 12623; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912623 - 2 Oct 2022
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In recent years, there have been growing concerns about the environment and its effect on human health. In this paper, we measure human health by mortality. Firstly, we use the method of deviation decomposition to investigate the different changes of mortality in eastern, [...] Read more.
In recent years, there have been growing concerns about the environment and its effect on human health. In this paper, we measure human health by mortality. Firstly, we use the method of deviation decomposition to investigate the different changes of mortality in eastern, central and western regions of China. Secondly, we study the linearity and nonlinearity between environmental status and mortality by semi–parametric additive panel model. Following is the primary conclusions obtained in the study: (1) There exists a big mortality gap among different regions; the gap is mainly dominated by the inter–regional difference; the mortality of the middle region increases heavily; the western region becomes a major source of mortality differences. (2) Mortality decreased with the increase of urban green area. On the other hand, the higher the environmental pollution index, the higher the mortality rate. (3) The environmental pollution index, urban green area, number of licensed (assistant) physicians per thousand and the per capita GDP can affect mortality in a nonlinear way. Full article
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