New WHO global air quality guidelines help prevent premature deaths in China.

ABSTRACT: The World Health Organization has issued new air quality guidelines (AQG). Based on 2020 data, achieving the new AQG for PM2.5 could prevent an additional 285,000 chronic deaths and 13,000 acute deaths, across China, compared with the previous AQG. The new AQG can better protect health but cannot be achieved without coordinated air-pollution-control and climate-mitigation efforts.

SUBMITTER: Xue T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9084177 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature