Assessment of the health impacts of air pollution exposure in East African countries

The health effects of air pollution remain a public concern worldwide. Using data from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 report, we statistically analyzed total mortality, disability-adjusted life years (DALY), and years of life lost (YLL) attributable to air pollution in eight East African countries between 1990 and 2019. We acquired ambient ozone (O3), PM2.5 concentrations and household air pollution (HAP) from the solid fuel from the State of Global Air report. The multilinear regression model was used to evaluate the predictability of YLLs by the air pollutants. We estimated the ratio rate for each health burden attributable to air pollution to compare the country’s efforts in the reduction of air pollution health burden. This study found that the total number of deaths attributable to air pollution decreased by 14.26% for 30 years. The drop came from the reduction of 43.09% in mortality related to Lower Respiratory tract Infection (LRI). However, only five out of eight countries managed to decrease the total number of deaths attributable to air pollution with the highest decrease observed in Ethiopia (40.90%) and the highest increase in Somalia (67.49%). The linear regression model showed that HAP is the pollutant of the most concern in the region, with a 1% increase in HAP resulting in a 31.06% increase in regional YLL (R2 = 0.93; p < 0.05). With the increasing ground-level ozone, accompanied by the lack of adequate measures to reduce particulate pollutants, the health burdens attributable to air pollution are still a threat in the region.

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Издательство
Springer International Publishing
Номер выпуска
5
Язык
Английский
Страницы
413
Статус
Опубликовано
Том
196
Год
2024
Организации
  • 1 Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia Named After Patrice Lumumba
  • 2 University of Rwanda
Ключевые слова
burden of disease; East Africa; ambient air pollution; Household air pollution; health impact; particulate matter; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; environmental management; ecotoxicology; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; ecology
Дата создания
01.07.2024
Дата изменения
01.07.2024
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https://repository.rudn.ru/ru/records/article/record/111780/
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