TITLE:
Relationship between Air Pollution Index (API) and Crowd Health in Nanchang City
AUTHORS:
Xiaozhen Liu, Yue Liang, Daowen Yuan
KEYWORDS:
Air Pollution Index (API), Disease, Number of Outpatient Service Diseases
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection,
Vol.4 No.4,
April
11,
2016
ABSTRACT: Objective: To explore the effect of Air
Pollution Index (API) on people’s health. Methods: The data on air pollution
index (API), NO2, SO2 and PM10 were based on the everyday monitoring information
from environmental monitoring station of Nanchang City. The everyday outpatient
service diseases information of 2005 related to air pollution from some First
Level Hospitals in Nanchang city was collected, and was summarized and analyzed
by statistics software of Excel 2003 and SPSS11.5. Results: The average
concentrations of NO2, SO2 and PM10 in
the air of Nanchang city from 2006-2009 were 19.70 ± 8.56 μg/m3, 44.60 ± 10.45
μg/m3, 62.30 ± 19.76 μg/m3 respectively. Tight relationship was detected
between NO2, SO2 and PM10. Air pollution index (API) can better reflect the air
pollution status of Nanchang city. There were positive correlations between API
and number of outpatient service diseases, including cardiovascular disease,
respiratory disease, ophthalmology disease and ear-nose-throat (ENT) disease in
Nanchang city. Conclusion API was related to the number of outpatient service
relative diseases.