Economic Valuation of Health Impacts of Air Pollution in Mumbai

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作者：

Anjali Srivastava

Rakesh Kumar

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[1] National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEER),Mumbai Zonal Laboratory

来源：

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment | 2002年 / 75卷

关键词：

air pollution; Air Quality Index; asthma; economic valuation; health impact; integrated daily exposure; Logit Model; morbidity; mortality; Mumbai;

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摘要：

Air pollution leads to serious negative impacts on health. Thephysical evidence is compelling. An attempt has been made inthis paper to establish dose-response relationship of AmbientAir Quality Index and human health, based on time spent by anindividual in different microenvironments during one day.Economic valuation of morbidity and mortality has been attemptedthrough lost salary approach. The results show that theavoidance cost is 29% of the total health damage cost.

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页码：135 / 143

页数：8