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The economic loss of public health from PM2.5 pollution in the Fenwei Plain

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At present, the concentration of PM2.5 in the Fenwei Plain has become the second highest in China, ranking second to the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region. At the same time, China began to monitor and control the PM2.5 concentration in the Fenwei Plain, but the data indicated that the concentration of PM2.5 in the Fenwei Plain rose instead of falling. PM2.5 concentrations in 6 cities from the Fenwei Plain ranked highest among the 20 cities in 2018 in China, and PM2.5 pollution can cause some health economic loss. Based on this background, the exposure–response model is used to estimate the impact of PM2.5 pollution on the health economic loss in the Fenwei Plain, and PM2.5 concentration in 2020, 2025, and 2030 is also predicted based on the setting of three scenarios: baseline scenario, emission reduction scenario, and enhanced emission reduction scenario. Then, according to the estimated results, the paper provides suggestions for reducing public health loss in the Fenwei Plain in the future.

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The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from China Statistical Yearbook from 2000 to 2015, China Health and Family Planning Statistical Yearbook in 2015, the Urban Statistical Yearbook of the Cities in Fenwei Plain, and China Population and Employment Statistics Yearbook in 2016.

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The authors express their sincere thanks for the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 71803182 and 71773118, Beijing Social Science Foundation Project under Grant No. 19YJC023, National Science and Technology Major Project under Grant No. 2016ZX05016005-003.

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  1. School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China

    Ziyu Dong, Li Li, Yalin Lei, Sanmang Wu & Hong Chen

  2. Key Laboratory of Carrying Capacity Assessment for Resource and Environment, Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing, 100083, China

    Ziyu Dong, Li Li, Yalin Lei, Sanmang Wu & Hong Chen

  3. State Key Laboratory of Water Resource Protection and Utilization in Coal Mining, Beijing, 100011, China

    Li Li

  4. Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, 518055, China

    Dan Yan

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Li Li: designed the research; Ziyu Dong, Li Li: wrote and revised the paper; Yalin Lei and Sanmang Wu: contributed new analytic ideas; Dan Yan and Hong Chen: analyzed the data.

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Our manuscript does not report on or involve the use of any animal or human data or experiment. The data we used were from China Statistical Yearbook from 2000 to 2015, China Health and Family Planning Statistical Yearbook in 2015, the Urban Statistical Yearbook of the Cities in Fenwei Plain, and China Population and Employment Statistics Yearbook in 2016 and it did not involve ethical issues.

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Dong, Z., Li, L., Lei, Y. et al. The economic loss of public health from PM2.5 pollution in the Fenwei Plain. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 2415–2425 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-10651-0

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