TY - JOUR
T1 - Antagonism between ambient ozone increase and urbanization-oriented population migration on Chinese cardiopulmonary mortality
AU - Sun, Haitong Zhe
AU - Zhao, Junchao
AU - Liu, Xiang
AU - Qiu, Minghao
AU - Shen, Huizhong
AU - Guillas, Serge
AU - Giorio, Chiara
AU - Staniaszek, Zosia
AU - Yu, Pei
AU - Wan, Michelle W.L.
AU - Chim, Man Mei
AU - van Daalen, Kim Robin
AU - Li, Yilin
AU - Liu, Zhenze
AU - Xia, Mingtao
AU - Ke, Shengxian
AU - Zhao, Haifan
AU - Wang, Haikun
AU - He, Kebin
AU - Liu, Huan
AU - Guo, Yuming
AU - Archibald, Alexander T.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s)
PY - 2023/11/13
Y1 - 2023/11/13
N2 - Ever-increasing ambient ozone (O3) pollution in China has been exacerbating cardiopulmonary premature deaths. However, the urban-rural exposure inequity has seldom been explored. Here, we assess population-scale O3 exposure and mortality burdens between 1990 and 2019 based on integrated pollution tracking and epidemiological evidence. We find Chinese population have been suffering from climbing O3 exposure by 4.3 ± 2.8 ppb per decade as a result of rapid urbanization and growing prosperity of socioeconomic activities. Rural residents are broadly exposed to 9.8 ± 4.1 ppb higher ambient O3 than the adjacent urban citizens, and thus urbanization-oriented migration compromises the exposure-associated mortality on total population. Cardiopulmonary excess premature deaths attributable to long-term O3 exposure, 373,500 (95% uncertainty interval [UI]: 240,600–510,900) in 2019, is underestimated in previous studies due to ignorance of cardiovascular causes. Future O3 pollution policy should focus more on rural population who are facing an aggravating threat of mortality risks to ameliorate environmental health injustice.
AB - Ever-increasing ambient ozone (O3) pollution in China has been exacerbating cardiopulmonary premature deaths. However, the urban-rural exposure inequity has seldom been explored. Here, we assess population-scale O3 exposure and mortality burdens between 1990 and 2019 based on integrated pollution tracking and epidemiological evidence. We find Chinese population have been suffering from climbing O3 exposure by 4.3 ± 2.8 ppb per decade as a result of rapid urbanization and growing prosperity of socioeconomic activities. Rural residents are broadly exposed to 9.8 ± 4.1 ppb higher ambient O3 than the adjacent urban citizens, and thus urbanization-oriented migration compromises the exposure-associated mortality on total population. Cardiopulmonary excess premature deaths attributable to long-term O3 exposure, 373,500 (95% uncertainty interval [UI]: 240,600–510,900) in 2019, is underestimated in previous studies due to ignorance of cardiovascular causes. Future O3 pollution policy should focus more on rural population who are facing an aggravating threat of mortality risks to ameliorate environmental health injustice.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85173626678
U2 - 10.1016/j.xinn.2023.100517
DO - 10.1016/j.xinn.2023.100517
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85173626678
SN - 2666-6758
VL - 4
JO - Innovation
JF - Innovation
IS - 6
M1 - 100517
ER -