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## Background: A new air quality health index (aqhi) was developed in canada or several single cities as a promising health risk communication tool. ## Objectives: To construct a national aqhi in china and compare its validity in predicting daily mortality risk with the existing air quality index (aqi). ## Methods: We established the aqhi as the sum of excess total mortality risks associated with multiple air pollutants in 272 representative chinese cities from 2013 to 2015 (termed as "total aqhi"). the mortality risks per unit change of air pollutant concentrations were determined according to a time-series analysis in each city. separate aqhis were established for subgroups classified by age and sex and for main cardiopulmonary diseases (termed as "specific aqhis"). for validation, aqhis and aqi were established using the data of 2015 (n = 272) and compared their associations with daily mortality using the data of 2013-2014 (n = 144). ## Results: The concentration-response coefficients of fine particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ozone were adopted in constructing aqhi. there were almost linear exposure-response relationships between aqhis and daily mortality. the total aqhi

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Author

Xihao Du; Renjie Chen; Xia Meng; Cong Liu; Yue Niu; Weidong Wang; Shanqun Li; Haidong Kan; Maigeng Zhou

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0160-4120)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)