Disability adjusted life year (DALY): A useful tool for quantitative assessment of environmental pollution

被引：92

作者：

Gao, Tingting ^{[1
]}

Wang, Xiaochang C. ^{[1
]}

Chen, Rong ^{[1
]}

Ngo, Huu Hao ^{[2
]}

Guo, Wenshan ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Xian Univ Architecture & Technol, Minist Educ, Key Lab Northwest Water Resources Environm & Ecol, Xian 710055, Peoples R China

[2] Univ Technol Sydney, Fac Engn & Informat Technol, Sch Civil & Environm Engn, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia

来源：

SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT | 2015年 / 511卷

基金：

中国国家自然科学基金;

关键词：

Disability adjusted life year (DALY); Impact assessment; Environmental pollution; Chemical pollutants; Pathogens; MICROBIAL RISK-ASSESSMENT; GLOBAL BURDEN; DISEASE BURDEN; HEALTH-RISK; AIR-POLLUTION; PUBLIC-HEALTH; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM INFECTION; SUBCHRONIC TOXICITY; ENTERIC PATHOGENS; MASSIVE OUTBREAK;

D O I：

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.11.048

中图分类号：

X [环境科学、安全科学];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0830 ;

摘要：

Disability adjusted life year (DALY) has been widely used since 1990s for evaluating global and/or regional burden of diseases. As many environmental pollutants are hazardous to human health, DALY is also recognized as an indicator to quantify the health impact of environmental pollution related to disease burden. Based on literature reviews, this article aims to give an overview of the applicable methodologies and research directions for using DALY as a tool for quantitative assessment of environmental pollution. With an introduction of the methodological framework of DALY, the requirements on data collection and manipulation for quantifying disease burdens are summarized. Regarding environmental pollutants hazardous to human beings, health effect/risk evaluation is indispensable for transforming pollution data into disease data through exposure and dose-response analyses which need careful selection of models and determination of parameters. Following the methodological discussions, real cases are analyzed with attention paid to chemical pollutants and pathogens usually encountered in environmental pollution. It can be seen from existing studies that DALY is advantageous over conventional environmental impact assessment for quantification and comparison of the risks resulted from environmental pollution. However, further studies are still required to standardize the methods of health effect evaluation regarding varied pollutants under varied circumstances before DALY calculation. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：268 / 287

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