Air pollution: a tool to estimate healthcare costs
A tool to help local authorities estimate the burden of air pollution on the health care system.
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皇冠体育app cost of air pollution tool quantifies the potential costs to the NHS and social care due to the health impacts of particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in England and separately for each local authority.
皇冠体育app tool has the ability to test different 鈥榳hat if鈥� scenarios for the reduction of air pollution, such as a given reduction in the levels of air pollution on the future impact of health and related cost. 皇冠体育app outputs include the number of disease prevalence cases and costs avoided due to a given scenario relative to a baseline (鈥榥o change鈥�) scenario.
皇冠体育app accompanying report describes the methodology and data used in the analyses and provides results for England and 2 local authorities, namely Lambeth (inner city London) and South Lakeland (Cumbria), to represent 2 extremes in air pollutant concentrations.
This video will help you use the resource.