Quantifying the Public Health Benefits of Reducing Air Pollution: Critically Assessing the Features and Capabilities of WHO's AirQ+ and U.S. EPA's Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program - Community Edition (BenMAP - CE).
Atmosphere (Basel)
; 11(5): 1-15, 2020 May 16.
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Scientific evidence spanning experimental and epidemiologic studies has shown that air pollution exposures can lead to a range of health effects. Quantitative approaches that allow for the estimation of the adverse health impacts attributed to air pollution enable researchers and policy analysts to convey the public health impact of poor air quality. Multiple tools are currently available to conduct such analyses, which includes software packages designed by the World Health Organization (WHO) AirQ+, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program - Community Edition (BenMAP - CE), to quantify the number and economic value of air pollution-attributable premature deaths and illnesses. WHO's AirQ+ and U.S. EPA's BenMAP - CE are among the most popular tools to quantify these effects as reflected by the hundreds of peer-reviewed publications and technical reports over the past two decades that have employed these tools spanning many countries and multiple continents. Within this paper we conduct an analysis using common input parameters to compare AirQ+ and BenMAP - CE and show that the two software packages well align in the calculation of health impacts. Additionally, we detail the research questions best addressed by each tool.
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