The impact of indoor air pollution on health outcomes and cognitive abilities: empirical evidence from China

Qiu, Yun; Yang, Fusheng; Lai, Wangyang

doi:10.1007/s11111-019-00317-6

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“…The main biological mechanism by explaining environmental variations in nervous system could be air pollutants cross blood and brain barrier increased mental distress by different etiology and toxicity [28,29,30,32]. Since it had been supported that both cognitive ability [12,47–51] and non-cognitive ability could positively influence mental health [12,37,41,47–49] and that air pollution could damage cognitive ability [53,60–63] and non-cognitive ability [66,67], it was reasonable to propose that cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability could mediate the relationship between air pollution and mental health. And this was demonstrated by the empirical results of our study.…”

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“…From the related literature, pollution exposure had negative impacts on the short-term and long-run health status [5,52,53]. Air pollution also reduced subjective well-being, caused anxiety and depression, and seriously increased suicide risk among people exposed to air pollution [25,26].…”

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“…Evidence showed air pollution exposure would harmfully affect cognitive ability in academic performance [59]. Short-term memory, mathematical reasoning and such cognitive abilities would be harmed by air pollution [53], which was especially the case for the middle-aged and the elderly [53,60]. Also long exposure to black carbon, a marker of traffic-related air pollution, could cause decreased cognitive function in older men, such as attention, working memory, long-term verbal memory, visuoconstruction and global cognition [61].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Do cognitive and non-cognitive abilities mediate the relationship between air pollution exposure and mental health?

Ren

Yang

2019

PLoS ONE

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Considered as a key component of human capital, mental health has drawn substantial scholarly attention for its effect on people’s health status and economic outcome. When facing the challenge of stress, people’s heterogeneity in cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability causes difference in patterns of coping, resulting in different manifestations in mental health. Previous researches have shown that cognitive and non-cognitive abilities have positively direct or indirect effects on mental health, but few studies research their role of coping with air pollution. We used the China Family Panel Survey (CFPS) and matched individual data with county or district level PM2.5 information from NASA. The study found that air pollution has negative effect on mental health with every increase of 1μg/m3 in PM2.5 deteriorating mental health by 0.038 standard deviation, which is the total effect of air pollution. However, the direct effect of air pollution on mental health will decrease to 0.028 in absolute value when considering mediating effects. By employing different approaches, we found positive mediating effects via cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability. Individuals with high cognitive and non-cognitive abilities are able to accurately diagnose problems and select the optimal coping strategies, thus restoring positive mental health.

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Do cognitive and non-cognitive abilities mediate the relationship between air pollution exposure and mental health?

Ren

Yang

2019

PLoS ONE

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“…[ 1 ] To evaluate the impact of outdoor air pollution on human health and implement appropriate protection policies, relevant studies have been conducted in the past decades. [ 2 , 3 ] Many adverse health problems have been reported associated with air pollution, including respiratory diseases (rhinitis, asthma, bronchitis, and pneumonia), [ 4 ] cardiovascular diseases (stroke, cardiac arrhythmias, and ischemic heart disease), [ 5 ] chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), [ 6 ] more rarely, conjunctivitis, [ 7 ] skin disease, [ 8 ] and cough. [ 9 ] Researches on the correlation between air pollution and respiratory diseases (such as asthma and COPD) are abundant, [ 6 ] while few studies investigated the correlation of allergic rhinitis (AR) with air pollution in China.…”

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Protocol for a prospective multicenter cross-sectional observational study to investigate the role of air pollution on allergic rhinitis prevalence

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Introduction: Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a major chronic inflammatory disease of the respiratory tract. A large number of epidemiological investigations have shown that the prevalence of AR is increasing, resulting in a large social burden. Importantly, the impact of air pollution on health is a widespread concern. We aim to evaluate association of air pollution and AR risk. Methods and analysis: This prospective study includes patients undergoing AR. The exclusion criteria will be as follows: Patients with nasal infection, nasal polyps, nasal tumors, mental disorders, and immunodeficiency will be excluded. Air pollution levels of ambient air pollutants including PM2.5, PM10, sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), carbon dioxide (CO), and O 3 , and patient data will be collected. The correlation analysis will be performed in air pollutants and AR risk. Discussion: This study will provide correlation of NO 2 , SO 2 , PM10, and PM2.5 for AR in several aspects, including symptom score, drug score, quality of life score, asthma control score, side effects, and laboratory examination such as nasal function test, serum total immunoglobulin E, and nasal secretion smear.

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“…[6] in a study of Mexican households found traditional stoves to be highly inefficient and discovered a correlation between IAP and household expenditure on cooking fuels. In Chinese households using solid fuels, [7] observes a significant negative effect on both health and cognitive outcomes of women and a corresponding rise in treatment costs. Females were found to be more vulnerable to IAP and consistently suffered.…”

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Indoor Air Pollution and Concerned Health Costs in Indian Context

Kalita¹,

Hazarika²

2019

IJRTE

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Abstract: Clean air is considered the fountain of life that enables humankind to sustain healthy lives while supporting unique ecosystems of the Earth. The United Nations, being the supreme policymaking body in the world, has duly stated that "clean air is a human right". The underlying reason for this derives itself from gruesome statistics asserting that between 6 and 7 million people die prematurely each year due to air pollution, and around 90% of the global pollution breathes polluted air. Being the existential threat pollution is, most of it is caused by burning of fossil fuels that contributes not only to climate change but also deteriorating human health. A significant portion of air pollution is constituted by indoor air pollution through carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, which has been a major cause of concern for India. It has been observed that 9 out of 10 people in India breathe air that breached safe limits and 7 million people die each year due to household air pollution through exposure to fine particles causing cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer and other pulmonary diseases. Women form a significant portion of such sufferers, whereby, a WHO report has found that mothers were more likely to deliver underweight babies in households with indoor air pollution from solid fuels. Associated with this, is the issue of increasing household expenditure on health vis-à-vis women. This paper examines the impact of such indoor pollution on women vis-à-vis health costs as part of their household expenditure allocations. Observations emphasise the need to reverse such trend of increasing indoor air pollution while moving on to a phase of employing greener fuels and technologies among households, and associated sensitive policymaking. This is expected to not only increase the standard of health among women of different strata but also will propel the productivity of human capital on a per capita basis.

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The impact of indoor air pollution on health outcomes and cognitive abilities: empirical evidence from China

Cited by 82 publications

References 33 publications

Do cognitive and non-cognitive abilities mediate the relationship between air pollution exposure and mental health?

Do cognitive and non-cognitive abilities mediate the relationship between air pollution exposure and mental health?

Protocol for a prospective multicenter cross-sectional observational study to investigate the role of air pollution on allergic rhinitis prevalence

Indoor Air Pollution and Concerned Health Costs in Indian Context

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