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Global Burden of Disease from Major Air Pollution Sources (GBD MAPS): A Global Approach.

Erin E. McDuffie, Rachel S. Martin, Hailei Yin, Michael Bräuer

2021PubMed51 citationsOpen Access PDF

Abstract

disease burden across all regions, countries, and subnational areas. To improve the transparency and reproducibility of this and future work, we publicly provided the global atmospheric chemistry-transport model source code, emissions dataset and emissions model source code, analysis scripts, and source sensitivity results, and further described the emissions dataset and source contribution results in two publications. ) would be avoidable by eliminating fossil fuel combustion, with coal contributing over half of that burden. Residential (19.2%; 736,000 deaths [95% UI: 521,000-955,000]), industrial (11.7%; 448,000 deaths [95% UI: 318,000-582,000]), and energy (10.2%; 391,000 deaths [95% UI: 277,000-507,000]) sector emissions are among the dominant global sources Uncertainty in these estimates reflects those of the input datasets. Regions with the largest anthropogenic contributions generally have the highest numbers of attributable deaths, which clearly demonstrates the importance of reducing these emissions to realize reductions in global air pollution and its disease burden.

Topics & Concepts

Environmental scienceAir pollutionAir quality indexFossil fuelParticulatesPollutionAtmospheric dispersion modelingBurden of diseaseEnvironmental protectionNatural resource economicsMeteorologyEnvironmental healthGeographyPopulationEngineeringWaste managementChemistryEconomicsEcologyBiologyMedicineOrganic chemistryAir Quality and Health ImpactsClimate Change and Health ImpactsAir Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
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