Stronger policy required to substantially reduce deaths from PM2.5 pollution in China

Huanbi Yue; Chunyang He; Qingxu Huang; Dan Yin; Brett A. Bryan

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15319-4

Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Stronger policy required to substantially reduce deaths from PM2.5 pollution in China

Huanbi Yue,
Chunyang He,
Qingxu Huang,
Dan Yin,
Brett A. Bryan

Affiliations

Huanbi Yue: Center for Human-Environment System Sustainability (CHESS), State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (ESPRE), Beijing Normal University
Chunyang He: Center for Human-Environment System Sustainability (CHESS), State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (ESPRE), Beijing Normal University
Qingxu Huang: Center for Human-Environment System Sustainability (CHESS), State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (ESPRE), Beijing Normal University
Dan Yin: Center for Human-Environment System Sustainability (CHESS), State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (ESPRE), Beijing Normal University
Brett A. Bryan: Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15319-4
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Chinese government has implemented the air pollution control measure-the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan in 2013, whose effects have not been fully studied. Here the authors show that from 2013 to 2017, the plan has achieved substantial public health benefits.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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