EAPSI: Examining the Long-term Health Benefits of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Actions in Heavily Polluted Regions

EAPSI：审视重污染地区空气污染防治行动的长期健康效益

• 批准号: 1713789
• 负责人: Chloe Kim
• 金额: $ 0.54万
• 依托单位: Kim Chloe
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1713789&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAPSI; Examining; Long; term; Health

The overall objective of this project is to examine the long-term health benefits of the 2013 "Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan" in one of the most heavily polluted and populated regions in China: the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The project will be conducted at Tsinghua University under the mentorship of Dr. Shuxiao Wang, who is a noted expert in air pollution research. China is an ideal location to conduct air pollution research because of its available and abundant resources, as well as its political, scientific, and societal interests in the topic. This project will examine the health benefits, such as reduced cardiovascular outcome or premature deaths, of China's new comprehensive air pollution policy, which has resulted in reduced PM2.5 levels. Air pollution is a global environmental issue that is affecting both developed and developing countries, and has local air quality and also global climate impacts. Therefore, even though the research will be conducted in China, it will have impacts on the global community. Because China is one of the major emitters of air pollution, providing quantifiable information on: 1) existing pollution levels, 2) expected improvements in air quality from the new air pollution policy, and 3) estimated health benefits will enhance the global community's general and scientific understanding of this important issue. There are three input components to be used in the project. The first component, "Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) output" , will have estimates of changes in ambient PM2.5 under the action plan. Second, demographic data will be collected from the National Bureau of Statistics of China. Lastly, "concentration-response functions (CRFs)" for premature death attributable to PM2.5 as well as other disease outcomes of interest will be derived from the epidemiological literature and expert syntheses of literature relevant to China. CRFs will represent the effect of changes in PM2.5 on health outcome incidence of interest. China's current circumstance - highly elevated PM2.5 concentrations, a large number of affected individuals, and rapidly changing pollution control measures - will offer some unique scenarios to investigate under the proposed project.This award under the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Program supports summer research by a U.S. graduate student and is jointly funded by NSF and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology.

本项目的总体目标是研究2013年《大气污染防治行动计划》在中国污染最严重和人口最多的地区之一：京津冀地区的长期健康效益。该项目将在著名空气污染研究专家王树晓博士的指导下在清华大学进行。中国是进行空气污染研究的理想地点，因为它拥有丰富的资源，以及对该主题的政治，科学和社会利益。该项目将研究中国新的综合空气污染政策对健康的益处，例如减少心血管疾病或过早死亡，该政策降低了PM2.5水平。空气污染是一个全球性的环境问题，影响到发达国家和发展中国家，并影响到当地的空气质量和全球气候。因此，尽管这项研究将在中国进行，但它将对全球社会产生影响。由于中国是空气污染的主要排放国之一，提供以下方面的可量化信息：1）现有污染水平，2）新空气污染政策对空气质量的预期改善，以及3）估计的健康效益将提高全球社会对这一重要问题的普遍和科学认识。该项目将使用三个输入组件。第一个组成部分，“社区多尺度空气质量（CMAQ）输出”，将根据行动计划估计环境PM2.5的变化。第二，人口数据将从中国国家统计局收集。最后，可归因于PM2.5的过早死亡以及其他关注的疾病结局的“浓度-反应函数（CRF）”将来自中国相关的流行病学文献和专家文献综合。CRF将代表PM2.5变化对关注的健康结局发生率的影响。中国目前的环境--PM2.5浓度高企，受影响的人数众多，污染控制措施变化迅速--将为该项目提供一些独特的研究场景。该项目是由美国国家科学基金会和中国科技部共同资助的东亚和太平洋暑期研究所项目，旨在资助一名美国研究生的暑期研究。