Health impacts related to urban and transport planning: A burden of disease assessment

Mueller, Natalie; Rojas-Rueda, David; Basagaña, Xavier; Cirach, Marta; Cole‐Hunter, Tom; Dadvand, Payam; Donaire-González, David; Foraster, María; Gascón, Mireia; Martínez, David; Tonne, Cathryn; Triguero-Mas, Margarita; Valentín, Antònia; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark

doi:10.1016/j.envint.2017.07.020

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“…Otherwise, general public understands the use of an index ranging from good to unhealthy, and it becomes the 750 most popular way to clarify air pollution levels in the vast range of countries and regions. Such indices were firstly developed in early 1970's, and have been evolving since then [11,12]. There are various air pollution quality indexes like Air Quality Index (AQI) which is also known as Air Pollution Index (API) [13] or Pollutant Standard Index (PSI) [4,14].…”

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Characterizing of Air Pollution in Tehran: Comparison of Two Air Quality Indices

Motesaddi

Hashempour

Nowrouz

2017

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Multi-pollutant air pollution dramatically occurs in wide range of regions across Tehran. Air quality index (AQI) is applied worldwide to inform the public about levels of air pollution and related to health risks. Assessing air pollution, and transferring information about its possible adverse health effects, may encourage population and policy makers to reduce activities that increase pollution levels. In this study the Air quality index (AQI), Aggregate Air quality index (AAQI), and a relative index of variability (VR) were obtained for the data in order to better investigate air pollution conditions for the whole areas of a city of Tehran, aim at warning the people of short-term health impact. The proposed index of variability does add precious information to the aggregate AQI, as it can demonstrate whether the value assumed by the AQI is influenced by one or more pollutants. The two indices are together used on simulated data and consider different possible scenarios. In addition, Applications to real air pollution data are reported. Before applying the two indices, the effects of different standardizations on data are evaluated from a theoretical point of view.

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Characterizing of Air Pollution in Tehran: Comparison of Two Air Quality Indices

Motesaddi

Hashempour

Nowrouz

2017

cej

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“…On the other hand, Mueller et al [19] focused their study on burden of disease (BD) due to exposures affected by urban planning and transportation. The findings made by the authors suggest that: (1) the reduction of road traffic together with the promotion of active transport and (2) the provision of green infrastructure would result in a considerable avoided BD and substantial savings for the public health system, since these measures can provide mitigation of noise, air pollution and heat, as well as opportunities for the promotion of physical activity (PA).…”

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Noise and Air Pollution Related to Health in Urban Environments

González

Vílchez‐Gómez

Morillas

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Environment, Green Technology, and Engineering International Conference

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Environmental noise is a pollutant considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a threat to public health due to its harmful effects on human health. In this regard, the European Environmental Agency (EEA) indicates that road traffic is the sound source that generates the greatest number of people exposed in Europe to sound levels above what is recommended by the European Noise Directive. In a similar way, the EEA also reports that air pollution is the most important environmental health risk in Europe, where road traffic is one of the main sources of emission of polluting gases. The relationship between both pollutants, leads to think about the development of common strategies. This paper presents a review on recent researches about the relationship of these two types of pollution in urban environments with different types of diseases.

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“…After the peak hours in Beijing 60db of sound is measured, which will not allow the inhabitants to sleep (Wang et al, 2014) Recent study shows that around 20% mortality could be forestalled each year by implementing the international recommendation standards to downsize the motorization transport and improve the non-motorized transport user (Muller et al, 2017). The 19th century was considered the car-centric planning era, but "the good days of the automobile are over", now it's time to downsize the car, and move towards smart mode of transportation (Gehl, 2016b).…”

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Downsizing Strategy for Cars, Beijing for People Not for Cars: Planning for People

Farooq

Williams

Gahlot³

et al. 2017

Period. Polytech. Transp. Eng.

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Health impacts related to urban and transport planning: A burden of disease assessment

Cited by 106 publications

References 67 publications

Characterizing of Air Pollution in Tehran: Comparison of Two Air Quality Indices

Characterizing of Air Pollution in Tehran: Comparison of Two Air Quality Indices

Noise and Air Pollution Related to Health in Urban Environments

Downsizing Strategy for Cars, Beijing for People Not for Cars: Planning for People

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