Abstract
One component of air pollution, in particular, particulate matter (PM2.5) has aroused wide public concern because of its high concentration. We investigated the short-term association between PM2.5 and asthma admission and assessed the impact of improved air quality on asthma admission from January 2015 to December 2017 in Seoul, Korea. Generalized additive modeling with a Poisson distribution was used to examine short-term effects of PM2.5 on asthma admission. The time trends, seasonal variations, day of week effects, and weather effects were controlled in the models. To estimate the health benefits of attaining the Seasonal PM2.5 management system, we used the US Environmental Protection Agency’s BenMAP. For people 0-14 years of age groups, an increase of 10ug/m3 in PM2.5 was associated with increases in daily asthma admission of 2.67% (95% CI, 1.90~3.44). For 0-14 years of age group, it was estimate that the health benefits of attaining the Seasonal PM2.5 management system would suggest an annual reduction of 195 (95% CI, 140~251) asthma admission. This study showed that children are at higher risk for the acute asthma effects of PM2.5. According to the findings of this study, the Seasonal PM2.5 management system results of environmental policy can be used as an useful decision making basis in setting policy priority.
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