Air quality and health benefits of China’s current and upcoming clean air policies
Jing Cheng, Dan Tong, Yang Liu, Bo Yu, Bo Zheng, Guannan Geng, Kebin He, Qiang Zhang
Abstract
) and will avoid 95.0 (95% CI, 76.3, 104.2) thousand premature deaths in 2030. We also point out several inadequacies of current clean air policies, suggesting that more ambitious control actions are needed to better protect public health with an increasing ageing population. Our findings could provide quantitative insights that can be used to better address air pollution issues in China and other developing countries.
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