Modeling health impacts of air pollutant emissions from the coal-fired power industry based on LCA and oriented by WTP: a case study

Empirical Analysis of Dust Health Impacts on Construction Workers Considering Work Types

“…In terms of the damage assessment, Table 10 presents the DALY for the health damage. YLD was only considered for acute respiratory infections because it has a low health impact and has the potential to cause adverse health conditions that do not result in human mortality [39]. The added number of DALY of workers with health damage caused by dust is presented in Figure 3.…”

“…In the characterization step, the health impact on human bodies caused by dust is quantified. This is done by following three steps: fate analysis, effect analysis, and damage assessment [39].…”

“…In the effect analysis step, the relationship between dust pollutants and health effects is characterized using risk factors and the added number of patients with health damage caused by a unit concentration of dust is calculated using Equations ( 4) and (5). Table 4 shows the values of the effect factors for the health damages [39]. The average life expectancy of the Korean population is 78.6 years, which was used in this study [40].…”

“…Murray [41] developed DALY to quantify the overall disease burden, which is expressed as the years of life lost (YLL) and years lived with disability (YLD) (Equations ( 6)-( 8)). Table 5 shows the duration and disability weights for the health damage [39].…”

Internet of things based visualisation of effect of air pollution on the lungs using HEPA filters air cleaner

“…The goal of the study was to present time-varying air quality data in a more interactive, enabling users to visualize air pollution values in 3D format via the we-based system developed. In other related studies such as [40] , [41] and [42] , researchers investigated different approaches to monitor air pollutant concentrations in the environment and their effect on health using emerging technologies to measure air quality index in real time. However, in the studies done so far, the focus is mainly on real time air quality monitoring however there is no study that has been done yet to focus on the visualisation of effect air pollution on the lungs.…”