An assessment of the potential health benefits of realizing the goals for PM<sub>10</sub> in the updated Chinese Ambient Air Quality Standard

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An assessment of the potential health benefits of realizing the goals for PM₁₀ in the updated Chinese Ambient Air Quality Standard

Guoxia MA,Jinnan WANG(

),Fang YU,Yanshen ZHANG,Dong CAO

Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, Beijing 100012, China

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Abstract

As a response to the severe air quality problems in China, the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection in 2012 issued an updated Ambient Air Quality Standard (GB3095-2012), which set a stricter grade II PM₁₀ standard. A successful implementation of this standard will have an impact on human health through reduction of exposure to air pollution in the population. Using the methods of adjusted human capital and value of statistical life, the authors in this article estimate the economic impact of a successful implementation of the updated Ambient Air Quality Standard on human health in China. The key results are: 1) The human health benefits from reaching the updated standard for PM₁₀ would equal CNY 51.1 billion using adjusted human capital, accounting for 18.5% of total human health costs in China, and CNY 83.5 billion using the value of a statistical life; 2) the benefit of reaching the updated standard for PM₁₀ is highest in the east coastal areas and gradually declines for more Western provinces; and 3) the marginal benefit of public health increases as the environmental quality standard PM₁₀ improves. If the annual concentration of PM₁₀ were to be reduced from the target number in the original grade II standard to that in the updated standard, the mortality rate of long-term exposure would be reduced by 6.5% due to reduced chronic exposure. In addition, if the annual concentration were to be reduced further from updated grade II to grade I standard, the mortality rate for long-term exposure would be lowered by 32.8%.

Keywords air quality health benefit Ambient Air Quality Standard PM₁₀ China

Corresponding Author(s): Jinnan WANG

Online First Date: 25 July 2014 Issue Date: 01 February 2016

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Yanshen ZHANG,Dong CAO,Guoxia MA, et al. An assessment of the potential health benefits of realizing the goals for PM₁₀ in the updated Chinese Ambient Air Quality Standard[J]. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng., 0, (): 288-298.

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Tab.1 Exposure-response relation between PM₁₀ and the incidence of atmospheric pollution-related diseases

Tab.2 Illness costs for hospital admission in China in 2008

Fig.1 Composition of PM₁₀ in northern and southern Chinese cities

Fig.2 Proportion of cities by PM₁₀ concentration in each of province

Fig.3 Costs and benefits of human health under different air quality standards

Fig.4 Distribution of Benefit-Cost Ratio when reaching the updated grade II standard

Fig.5 Numbers of extra hospital admissions and premature deaths in different types of cities

Fig.6 Distribution of percentage of human health benefit to different PM₁₀ concentration under updated Grade II standard

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