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Health benefits of PM10 reduction in Iran

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Air pollution contains a complex mixture of poisonous compounds including particulate matter (PM) which has wide spectrum of adverse health effects. The main purpose of this study was to estimate the potential health impacts or benefits due to any changes in annual PM10 level in four major megacities of Iran. The required data of PM10 for AirQ software was collected from air quality monitoring stations in four megacities of Iran. The preprocessing was carried out using macro coding in excel environment. The relationship between different presumptive scenarios and health impacts was determined. We also assessed the health benefits of reducing PM10 to WHO Air Quality Guidelines (WHO-AQGs) and National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQSs) levels with regard to the rate of mortality and morbidity in studied cities. We found that the 10 μg/m3 increase in annual PM10 concentration is responsible for seven (95% CI 6–8) cases increase in total number of deaths per 2 × 105 person. We also found that 10.7, 7.2, 5.7, and 5.3% of total death is attributable to short-term exposure to air pollution for Ahvaz, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tehran, respectively. We found that by attaining the WHO’s proposed value for PM10, the potential health benefits of 89, 84, 79, and 78% were obtained in Ahvaz, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tehran, respectively. The results also indicated that 27, 10, 3, and 1% of health impacts were attributed to dust storm days for Ahvaz, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tehran, respectively.

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  1. Air Pollution and Respiratory Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

    Mohammad Bagherian Marzouni, Mahsa Moradi, Alireza Zarasvandi, Shayan Akbaripoor, Abdolkazem Neisi, Gholamreza Goudarzi, Mohammad Javad Mohammadi & Mehdi Esmaeili

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Water Science and Engineering, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

    Mohammad Bagherian Marzouni & Mehdi Esmaeili

  3. Department of Geo-Medicine Engineering, School of Geology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

    Alireza Zarasvandi

  4. Center for Air Pollution Research, Institute for Environmental Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand

  5. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

    Abdolkazem Neisi, Gholamreza Goudarzi & Mohammad Javad Mohammadi

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    Abdolkazem Neisi & Gholamreza Goudarzi

  7. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

    Reza Sheikhi

  8. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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  9. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Paramedical Sciences, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

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    Moeen Gholami

  12. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran

    Saeed Pourkarim Mozhdehi

  13. Faculty of Civil Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

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Marzouni, M.B., Moradi, M., Zarasvandi, A. et al. Health benefits of PM10 reduction in Iran. Int J Biometeorol 61, 1389–1401 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-017-1316-2

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