[Application of AirQ+ software in air pollution acute health risk assessment in China]
Jingyi Liu1, Congshen Meng1, Yawei Li1
1National Institute of Environmental Health, China CDC, Beijing 100021, China.
Objective:
To promote the application of software AirQ +developed by WHO in the air pollution health risk assessment in China.
Methods:
Introduced the calculation principle, scope of application, required data, results output and application examples of the model. Meta-analysis result of exposure-response relationship coefficients of acute health risks of air pollution in China are also provided in this paper.
Results:
The air quality and other related parameters of the study area in China can be input into AirQ+ software to obtain the attributable risk value of the health outcome of the exposed population compared with the reference concentration.
Conclusion:
The AirQ + software can be used for quantitative assessment of acute health risks of air pollution in China.
