Air pollution : a more serious health problem than COVID-19 in 2020
As a global pandemic, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses a serious threat to people's health. However, by comparing the deaths caused by COVID-19 and deaths from air pollution in 183 countries, our results show that air pollution was even more of a serious health problem than COVID-19 in...
Main Authors: | , , , |
---|---|
Other Authors: | , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Finnish Environment Institute
2021
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/336005 |
id |
ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/336005 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/336005 2024-01-07T09:42:29+01:00 Air pollution : a more serious health problem than COVID-19 in 2020 Dun, Wei Chen, Dean Petäjä, Tuukka Kulmala, Markku Air quality research group Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR) 2021-11-03T23:23:28Z 12 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/336005 eng eng Finnish Environment Institute This work was supported by ACCC Flagship funded by the Academy of Finland (#337549); Russian Mega Grant project "Megapolis - heat and pollution island: interdisciplinary hydroclimatic, geochemical and ecological analysis" (2020-220-08-5835); "Quantifying carbon sink, CarbonSink+ and their interaction with air quality" INAR project funded by Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation; European Research Council (ERC) project ATM-GTP Contract (#742206). Dun , W , Chen , D , Petäjä , T & Kulmala , M 2021 , ' Air pollution : a more serious health problem than COVID-19 in 2020 ' , Boreal Environment Research , vol. 26 , pp. 105-116 . ORCID: /0000-0002-1881-9044/work/102822849 85114039128 6bf1fd0f-7748-427e-837d-a411388e1b75 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/336005 000697217000006 cc_by openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 114 Physical sciences Article publishedVersion 2021 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:02:14Z As a global pandemic, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses a serious threat to people's health. However, by comparing the deaths caused by COVID-19 and deaths from air pollution in 183 countries, our results show that air pollution was even more of a serious health problem than COVID-19 in 2020. The relative roles of air pollution and COVID-19-attributable deaths across countries were affected by PM2.5 exposure, population age structure, societal development and government policies. The countries with less strict policies during the early stages of COVID-19, to ensure stable economic development, paid more to control COVID-19 deaths in the subsequent stages, and hence showed large GDP reduction percentages in 2020. Our results indicate that the COVID-19 is a serious killer but also that the mortality caused by air pollution is high, which underline the concurrent need to control the dispersion of COVID-19 and improvement of air quality. As a global pandemic, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses a serious threat to people's health. However, by comparing the deaths caused by COVID-19 and deaths from air pollution in 183 countries, our results show that air pollution was even more of a serious health problem than COVID-19 in 2020. The relative roles of air pollution and COVID-19-attributable deaths across countries were affected by PM 25 exposure, population age structure, societal development and govermnent policies. The countries with less strict policies during the early stages of COVID-19, to ensure stable economic development, paid more to control COVID-19 deaths in the subsequent stages, and hence showed large GDP reduction percentages in 2020. Our results indicate that the COVID-19 is a serious killer but also that the mortality caused by air pollution is high, which underline the concurrent need to control the dispersion of COVID-19 and improvement of air quality. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Boreal Environment Research HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository |
op_collection_id |
ftunivhelsihelda |
language |
English |
topic |
114 Physical sciences |
spellingShingle |
114 Physical sciences Dun, Wei Chen, Dean Petäjä, Tuukka Kulmala, Markku Air pollution : a more serious health problem than COVID-19 in 2020 |
topic_facet |
114 Physical sciences |
description |
As a global pandemic, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses a serious threat to people's health. However, by comparing the deaths caused by COVID-19 and deaths from air pollution in 183 countries, our results show that air pollution was even more of a serious health problem than COVID-19 in 2020. The relative roles of air pollution and COVID-19-attributable deaths across countries were affected by PM2.5 exposure, population age structure, societal development and government policies. The countries with less strict policies during the early stages of COVID-19, to ensure stable economic development, paid more to control COVID-19 deaths in the subsequent stages, and hence showed large GDP reduction percentages in 2020. Our results indicate that the COVID-19 is a serious killer but also that the mortality caused by air pollution is high, which underline the concurrent need to control the dispersion of COVID-19 and improvement of air quality. As a global pandemic, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses a serious threat to people's health. However, by comparing the deaths caused by COVID-19 and deaths from air pollution in 183 countries, our results show that air pollution was even more of a serious health problem than COVID-19 in 2020. The relative roles of air pollution and COVID-19-attributable deaths across countries were affected by PM 25 exposure, population age structure, societal development and govermnent policies. The countries with less strict policies during the early stages of COVID-19, to ensure stable economic development, paid more to control COVID-19 deaths in the subsequent stages, and hence showed large GDP reduction percentages in 2020. Our results indicate that the COVID-19 is a serious killer but also that the mortality caused by air pollution is high, which underline the concurrent need to control the dispersion of COVID-19 and improvement of air quality. Peer reviewed |
author2 |
Air quality research group Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR) |
format |
Article in Journal/Newspaper |
author |
Dun, Wei Chen, Dean Petäjä, Tuukka Kulmala, Markku |
author_facet |
Dun, Wei Chen, Dean Petäjä, Tuukka Kulmala, Markku |
author_sort |
Dun, Wei |
title |
Air pollution : a more serious health problem than COVID-19 in 2020 |
title_short |
Air pollution : a more serious health problem than COVID-19 in 2020 |
title_full |
Air pollution : a more serious health problem than COVID-19 in 2020 |
title_fullStr |
Air pollution : a more serious health problem than COVID-19 in 2020 |
title_full_unstemmed |
Air pollution : a more serious health problem than COVID-19 in 2020 |
title_sort |
air pollution : a more serious health problem than covid-19 in 2020 |
publisher |
Finnish Environment Institute |
publishDate |
2021 |
url |
http://hdl.handle.net/10138/336005 |
genre |
Boreal Environment Research |
genre_facet |
Boreal Environment Research |
op_relation |
This work was supported by ACCC Flagship funded by the Academy of Finland (#337549); Russian Mega Grant project "Megapolis - heat and pollution island: interdisciplinary hydroclimatic, geochemical and ecological analysis" (2020-220-08-5835); "Quantifying carbon sink, CarbonSink+ and their interaction with air quality" INAR project funded by Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation; European Research Council (ERC) project ATM-GTP Contract (#742206). Dun , W , Chen , D , Petäjä , T & Kulmala , M 2021 , ' Air pollution : a more serious health problem than COVID-19 in 2020 ' , Boreal Environment Research , vol. 26 , pp. 105-116 . ORCID: /0000-0002-1881-9044/work/102822849 85114039128 6bf1fd0f-7748-427e-837d-a411388e1b75 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/336005 000697217000006 |
op_rights |
cc_by openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
_version_ |
1787423461447041024 |