title: Evaluation of health benefit using BenMAP-CE with an integrated scheme of model and monitor data during Guangzhou Asian Games.
abstract: Guangzhou is the capital and largest city (land area: 7287 km(2)) of Guangdong province in South China. The air quality in Guangzhou typically worsens in November due to unfavorable meteorological conditions for pollutant dispersion. During the Guangzhou Asian Games in November 2010, the Guangzhou government carried out a number of emission control measures that significantly improved the air quality. In this paper, we estimated the acute health outcome changes related to the air quality improvement during the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games using a next-generation, fully-integrated assessment system for air quality and health benefits. This advanced system generates air quality data by fusing model and monitoring data instead of using monitoring data alone, which provides more reliable results. The air quality estimates retain the spatial distribution of model results while calibrating the value with observations. The results show that the mean PM2.5 concentration in November 2010 decreased by 3.5 μg/m(3) compared to that in 2009 due to the emission control measures. From the analysis, we estimate that the air quality improvement avoided 106 premature deaths, 1869 cases of hospital admission, and 20,026 cases of outpatient visits. The overall cost benefit of the improved air quality is estimated to be 165 million CNY, with the avoided premature death contributing 90% of this figure. The research demonstrates that BenMAP-CE is capable of assessing the health and cost benefits of air pollution control for sound policy making.
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment and Pollution Control, College of Environmental and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, Guangzhou 510006, China.
authors.forename: Dian
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment and Pollution Control, College of Environmental and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, Guangzhou 510006, China; State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Sources and Control of Air Pollution Complex, Beijing 100084, China. Electronic address: zhuyun@scut.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: USEPA/Office of Air Quality Planning & Standards, RTP, NC27711, USA.
authors.forename: Carey
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jang
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment and Pollution Control, College of Environmental and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, Guangzhou 510006, China; Department of Civil Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX 77710-0024, USA.
authors.forename: Che-Jen
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Sources and Control of Air Pollution Complex, Beijing 100084, China; Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Shuxiao
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-2010, USA.
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.affiliation: Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
authors.forename: Shuang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment and Pollution Control, College of Environmental and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, Guangzhou 510006, China.
authors.forename: Junping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.affiliation: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment and Pollution Control, College of Environmental and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, Guangzhou 510006, China.
authors.forename: Xuezhen
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Qiu
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002681:China; D002947:Cities; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000191:economics; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods; D058735:Environmental Policy; D006801:Humans; D008956:Models, Chemical; D011998:Recreation
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants
keywords: Air quality; BenMAP-CE; Data fusion; Health benefit; Model and monitor data; PM(2.5)