A preliminary assessment of the health impacts of indoor air contaminants determined using the DALY metric

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dc.contributor.authorMorantes, Giobertti
dc.contributor.authorJones, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorSherman, Max
dc.contributor.authorMolina, Constanza
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T20:15:19Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T20:15:19Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractCommon metrics used for assessing air quality are based on guidelines and/or standards for regulating concentrations that should not be exceeded over a period. Exceeding those values would represent problematic situations. A lack of agreement on appropriate norms or standards deems this approach sub-optimal. Moreover, this approach does not relate a proportion of exceedance to specific health outcomes. A need to develop health-centered IAQ metrics that can quantify burden of disease in terms of epidemiological evidence of population morbidity and mortality supported by the best knowledge of health effects, is pressing. This work proposes an approach that harnesses the advantages of using disability adjusted life years (DALYs) as a valuable metric to quantify and rank the burden of household air pollution, as a global perspective. Two methods were used to compute DALYs, one mainly based on incidence data and another mainly based on effect factors (i.e. DALYs per unit-intake of contaminant of interest). The methods are based on the following parameters: risk estimates, baseline incidence rates, damage factors, indoor air contaminant concentrations, human toxicological & epidemiological effect factors, dose-response factors, cancer-related variables and breathing rates. Systematic searches and reviews of peer-reviewed literature (including systematic reviews and meta-analyses) were performed to find information on said input parameters. Meta-analysis was used to pooled and synthesise data from different studies. A Monte Carlo approach was used to model results in DALYs lost. Over 1000 articles were revised and overall similar to 200 unique sources were used as sources of data. Ten contaminants were accounted for with specific risk estimates and damage factors data, for which human epidemiological effect factors were derived. Representative concentrations of 45 contaminants were calculated. Thirty-nine contaminants were accounted for human toxicological effect factors. Total pooled DALYs were estimated per 100,000 exposed population with corresponding uncertainty intervals. Estimated population-averaged annual cost, in DALYs lost, of chronic air contaminant inhalation in dwellings indicate that the contaminants with highest median DALY loss estimates are PM10 and PM2.5 (magnitudes of 10(3)); PMcoarse, formaldehyde and NO2 could be found with magnitudes of 10(2); contaminants with magnitudes of 10(1) include radon and ozone, finally SO2 and acrolein would have magnitudes of 10 degrees; mould-related bioaerosols could be of interest as well. The updated strategies allowed for the quantification of contaminants and health outcomes that were not accounted for in previous works. Computed DALYs have lower uncertainty intervals than those previously proposed. The updated methodology presented in this study may be used to assess cumulative health impacts of indoor air contaminants.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14733315.2023.2198800
dc.identifier.eissn2044-4044
dc.identifier.issn1473-3315
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14733315.2023.2198800
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/92253
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000969996700001
dc.issue.numero4
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final316
dc.pagina.inicio307
dc.revistaInternational journal of ventilation
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectDALYs
dc.subjectIAQ
dc.subjecthealth
dc.subjectdwellings
dc.subject.ods03 Good Health and Well-being
dc.subject.ods11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
dc.subject.odspa03 Salud y bienestar
dc.subject.odspa11 Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
dc.titleA preliminary assessment of the health impacts of indoor air contaminants determined using the DALY metric
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen22
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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