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DOI10.1038/s41893-020-0562-1
Dust pollution from the Sahara and African infant mortality
Heft-Neal, Sam1; Burney, Jennifer2; Bendavid, Eran3; Voss, Kara K.4; Burke, Marshall1,5,6
2020-06-29
发表期刊NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
ISSN2398-9629
出版年2020
文章类型Article;Early Access
语种英语
国家USA
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Estimation of pollution impacts on health is critical for guiding policy to improve health outcomes. Estimation is challenging, however, because economic activity can worsen pollution but also independently improve health outcomes, confounding pollution-health estimates. We leverage variation in exposure to local particulate matter of diameter <2.5 mu m (PM2.5) across Sub-Saharan Africa driven by distant dust export from the Sahara, a source uncorrelated with local economic activity. Combining data on a million births with local-level estimates of aerosol particulate matter, we find that an increase of 10 mu g m(-)(3)in local annual mean PM(2.5)concentrations causes a 24% increase in infant mortality across our sample (95% confidence interval: 10-35%), similar to estimates from wealthier countries. We show that future climate change driven changes in Saharan rainfall-a control on dust export-could generate large child health impacts, and that seemingly exotic proposals to pump and apply groundwater to Saharan locations to reduce dust emission could be cost competitive with leading child health interventions.


Air pollution harms health but rises with economic activity, which aids health. This study uses long-range Saharan dust to isolate impacts, finding a significant rise in Sub-Saharan infant mortality from particulate pollution.


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收录类别SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号WOS:000544156000008
WOS关键词SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE ; AIR-POLLUTION ; SAHEL RAINFALL ; IDENTIFICATION ; VARIABILITY ; EMISSIONS ; IMPACT
WOS类目Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
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条目标识符http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/281796
专题资源环境科学
作者单位1.Stanford Univ, Ctr Food Secur & Environm, Stanford, CA 94305 USA;
2.Univ Calif San Diego, Sch Global Policy & Strategy, La Jolla, CA USA;
3.Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Stanford, CA 94305 USA;
4.Univ Calif San Diego, Scripps Inst Oceanog, La Jolla, CA USA;
5.Stanford Univ, Dept Earth Syst Sci, Stanford, CA 94305 USA;
6.Natl Bur Econ Res, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
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Heft-Neal, Sam,Burney, Jennifer,Bendavid, Eran,et al. Dust pollution from the Sahara and African infant mortality[J]. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY,2020.
APA Heft-Neal, Sam,Burney, Jennifer,Bendavid, Eran,Voss, Kara K.,&Burke, Marshall.(2020).Dust pollution from the Sahara and African infant mortality.NATURE SUSTAINABILITY.
MLA Heft-Neal, Sam,et al."Dust pollution from the Sahara and African infant mortality".NATURE SUSTAINABILITY (2020).
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