Department of Public Health, Bursa Uludag University, Faculty of Medicine, Bursa, Turkey.
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Gayrettepe Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 Oct;28(37):51940-51947. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-13923-5. Epub 2021 May 16.
This research aims to reveal the premature deaths caused by long-term exposure to PM in 2018 in Turkey utilizing the AirQ+ program developed by the World Health Organization. Calculation of yearly average PM concentration in provinces, acreage of provinces, and the mortality rate of the at-risk population was the data required for the operation of the AirQ+ program. With the help of the AirQ+ program, the results revealed that a total of 44,617 people (95% CI 29.882-57.709) died prematurely due to sustained exposure to PM in Turkey in 2018. The highest estimated mortality proportion attributable to PM pollution was in the provinces of Igdir and Kahramanmaras. The highest estimated number of mortality cases per 100,000 population attributable to PM pollution was in the provinces of Manisa and Afyonkarahisar. This research points out that reaching the PM limits specified by the WHO could have prevented 44,617 premature deaths in the year 2018 in Turkey.
本研究旨在利用世界卫生组织（WHO）开发的 AirQ+ 程序，揭示 2018 年土耳其人因长期接触 PM 而导致的过早死亡。AirQ+ 程序运行所需的数据包括各省的年平均 PM 浓度、各省的面积和高危人群的死亡率。借助 AirQ+ 程序，结果显示，2018 年土耳其共有 44617 人（95%置信区间 29882-57709）因持续接触 PM 而过早死亡。因 PM 污染而导致的死亡比例估计最高的省份是 Igdir 和 Kahramanmaras。因 PM 污染而导致的每 10 万人死亡人数估计最高的省份是 Manisa 和 Afyonkarahisar。这项研究表明，达到世卫组织规定的 PM 限值本可以在 2018 年避免土耳其 44617 例过早死亡。
