Air Pollution’s Impact on the Economic, Social, Medical, and Industrial Injury Environments in China

Abstract

In this era of rapid economic development, it is inevitable that economic activities eventually cause serious damage to the environment’s air quality, making it the focus of global public health. If the treatment efficiency of medical accidents can be improved, then this can significantly stabilize society and improve production efficiency. Past research has mainly focused on work safety and health issues, seldom discussing economic, social, medical, and environmental pollution issues together, and, most generally, adopted static methods that fail to recognize how air pollution affects the overall economy, society, medical care, and external environment. In order to more deeply understand the changes among social, economic activities, and environmental issues due to air pollution, this study proposes a meta-two-stage undesirable dynamic DDF (Direction Distance Function) that, under an exogenous model, divides the 30 provinces of China into high-income regions and middle-income regions and explores the economic, social, medical, and environmental efficiencies between the two areas to resolve the lack of related static analyses. The empirical results are as follows. (1) The AQI (air quality index) significantly impacts the efficiency of medical injuries in various regions. (2) When the AQI is considered, the medical insurance expenditure efficiency score value of high-income areas is lower than the value without the AQI. (3) When the AQI is considered, the efficiency value of the number of work injury insurance benefits in the middle-income area is lower than the efficiency value without the AQI.

Simulasi Dispersi Perbandingan PM2.5 Saat Hari Tanpa Hujan (Hth) Dan Hari Libur Tahun Baru (Hltb) Di Sumatera Barat Dengan Model Weather Research and Forecasting (Wrf-Chem)

“…Salah satu cara untuk mengetahui kualitas udara dapat menggunakan model Weather Research and Forecasting -Chemistry (WRF-Chem). WRF-Chem dapat digunakan untuk mensimulasikan kondisi atmosfer saat terjadi kebakaran hutan, gunung meletus, tingkat polusi udara yang tinggi, dan dapat dikatikan dengan faktor-faktor meteorologi [5][6][7]. Penggunaan WRF-Chem telah dilakukan untuk simulasi dan prediksi terkait parameter kualitas udara seperti PM2.5 disuatu wilayah [8].…”

Estimation of health risk and economic loss attributable to PM2.5 and O3 pollution in Jilin Province, China

“…Moreover, O 3 pollution has gotten worse contemporaneously 17 . Therefore, air pollution remains a persistent threat to China's public health and economy 18 , 19 .…”

Spatial-temporal heterogeneity and driving factors of PM2.5 in China: A natural and socioeconomic perspective

“…Rapid urbanization has resulted in serious air pollution, such as haze, dust and other terrible weather frequently, which bring a huge impact on people's lives, industrial and agricultural production (1)(2)(3). PM 2.5 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5 µm), one of the major air pollutants, has been a popular research topic for academics in recent years (4)(5)(6)(7).…”

“…Numerous scholars have done extensive research on PM 2.5 in terms of components and sources, spatial variation and impact factors, and have proposed many corresponding control measures (11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16). Previous studies have shown that natural and socioeconomic factors have a significant impact on PM 2.5 (2,(17)(18)(19). For example, the increase in temperature is conducive to atmospheric flow, which enhances PM 2.5 dispersion, alike the higher summer temperature (lower heating energy consumption) are beneficial to the reduction of PM 2.5 concentrations (20).…”