Department of Environmental and Occupational Studies, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa.
J Air Waste Manag Assoc. 2023 Oct;73(10):737-749. doi: 10.1080/10962247.2023.2248928. Epub 2023 Aug 21.
Exposure to air pollution is a fundamental obstacle that makes it complex to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 3) for good health and wellbeing. It is for this reason that air pollution has been characterized as the global environmental health risk facing the current generation. The risks of air pollution on morbidity, and life expectancy are well documented. This feeds directly to the substantial body of the literature that exists regarding the burden of diseases associated with ambient air pollution. However, the bulk of this literature originates from developed countries. Whilst most of the sub-Saharan African studies extrapolate literature from developed countries to contextualize the risks of elevated air pollution exposure levels associated with the burden of disease. However, extrapolation of epidemiological evidence from developed countries is problematic given that it disregards the social vulnerability. Therefore, given this observation, it is ideal to evaluate if the monitoring executions of hazardous particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide do take into consideration the concerted necessary efforts to associate monitored air pollution exposure levels with the burden of disease. Therefore, based on this background, the current meta-analysis evaluated air quality monitoring associated with the burden of disease across sub-Saharan Africa. To this extent, the current meta-analysis strictly included peer-reviewed published journal articles from the sub-Saharan African regions to gain insight on air quality monitoring associated with the burden of disease. The collected meta-analysis data was captured and subsequently analyzed using Microsoft Excel 2019. This program facilitated the presentation of the meta-analysis data in the form of graphs and numerical techniques. Generally, the results indicate that the sub-Saharan Africa is characterized by a substantial gap in the number of regional studies that evaluate the burden of disease in relation with exposure to air quality. The work presented here is an original contribution and provides a comprehensive yet succinct overview of the monitoring associated with the burden of disease in sub-Saharan Africa. The author explores if the monitoring executions of hazardous particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide do take into considerations the concerted necessary efforts to associate monitored air pollution exposure levels with the burden of disease. The manuscript includes the most relevant and current literature in a field of study that has not received a deserving degree of research attention in recent years. This is especially true in sub-Saharan Africa, characterized by insufficient monitoring of air quality exposure concentrations.
暴露在空气污染中是实现良好健康和福祉的可持续发展目标 3 的一个基本障碍。正是出于这个原因，空气污染被认为是当前这一代人面临的全球环境健康风险。空气污染对发病率和预期寿命的风险已有充分记录。这直接反映在大量关于与环境空气污染相关疾病负担的现有文献中。然而，这些文献大部分来自发达国家。虽然大多数撒哈拉以南非洲的研究都是从发达国家的文献中推断出与疾病负担相关的升高的空气污染暴露水平的风险，但从发达国家推断出流行病学证据存在问题，因为它忽略了社会脆弱性。因此，鉴于这一观察结果，有必要评估危险颗粒物和二氧化氮的监测执行情况是否考虑到了与疾病负担相关的监测空气污染暴露水平的协同必要努力。因此，基于这一背景，本荟萃分析评估了撒哈拉以南非洲与疾病负担相关的空气质量监测。在这方面，本荟萃分析严格纳入了来自撒哈拉以南非洲地区的经过同行评审的已发表期刊文章，以深入了解与疾病负担相关的空气质量监测。收集的荟萃分析数据使用 Microsoft Excel 2019 进行捕获和随后分析。该程序以图形和数值技术的形式呈现荟萃分析数据。一般来说，结果表明，撒哈拉以南非洲在评估与空气质量暴露相关的疾病负担的区域研究数量方面存在很大差距。这里展示的工作是一项原创贡献，提供了撒哈拉以南非洲与疾病负担相关的监测的全面而简洁的概述。作者探讨了危险颗粒物和二氧化氮的监测执行情况是否考虑到了与疾病负担相关的监测空气污染暴露水平的协同必要努力。该手稿包含了该研究领域中最相关和最新的文献，近年来该领域没有得到应有的研究关注。这在空气质量暴露浓度监测不足的撒哈拉以南非洲尤其如此。
