低炭素社会による大気汚染物質濃度低減を介した健康へのインパクトの定量化手法の開発

2015 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 13F03501
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: 渡辺 知保 東京大学, 医学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (70220902)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): NG CHRIS FOOK SHENG 東京大学, 医学(系)研究科(研究院), 外国人特別研究員
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 大気汚染物質 / 低炭素社会 / 健康影響評価

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

1.Our collaboration with researchers in Japan and Malaysia has enabled the creation of an important environmental health database that allows the assessment of health impacts associated with various anthropogenic air pollutants as well as weather factors in a tropical location. This database that combines daily hospital admission records, air quality data and weather variables is a substantial step towards understanding how environmental health changes as the study location transitions to a low carbon society.
2.In this study, we found there was evidence that air particulate pollutant negatively affects cardiorespiratory diseases and that this association is short-term and varies seasonally according to local climate. Besides reducing the level of greenhouse gases, emission control in the study location is also expected to lead to a lower level of air particulate matter and because of this, lower health impacts.
3.We have presented the preliminary findings of the current study at 2 international meetings. We have also published a related article that proposes a new aerosol model to simulate the level of certain air pollutants, the results of which are currently being used to predict future health impacts.

Research Progress Status

27年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。

Strategy for Future Research Activity

27年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia(Malaysia)
  • Country Name: Malaysia
  • Counterpart Institution: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
• [Int'l Joint Research] Institute for Medical Research(Malaysia)
  • Country Name: Malaysia
  • Counterpart Institution: Institute for Medical Research
• [Journal Article] Application of a global nonhydrostatic model with a stretched-grid system to regional aerosol simulations around Japan (2015)
  • Author(s): Goto D, Dai T, Satoh M, Tomita H, Uchida J, Misawa S, Inoue T, Tsuruta H, Ueda K, Ng CFS, Takami A, Sugimoto N, Shimizu A, Ohara T, Nakajima T
  • Journal Title: Geoscientific Model Development Volume: 8 Pages: 235-259
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Assessing the health effects of particulate air pollution in a low carbon development region in Malaysia. (2015)
  • Author(s): Sahani M, Ng CFS, Wan Mahiyuddin WR, Ueda K, Kurata G, Watanabe C, Abd Samad BH, Latif MT, Sheik Ahmad MK, Toha HR, Maali S, Mustafa AN, Abdullah NA.
  • Organizer: 2015 Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Global Health Program Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: Osaka, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2015-10-30 – 2015-11-01
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Can low carbon development strategies reduce the health effects of particulate air pollution? Findings from a mixed industrial area in Malaysia. (2015)
  • Author(s): Ng CFS, Abdullah NA, Wan Mahiyuddin WR, Ueda K, Kurata G, Watanabe C, Abd Samad BH, Latif MT, Toha HR, Maali S, Yuso AF, Mustafa AN, Daros S, Sahani M.
  • Organizer: 27th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
  • Place of Presentation: Sao Paolo, Brazil
  • Year and Date: 2015-08-30 – 2015-09-02
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Effect modification by prefecture characteristics on the decline of heat-related mortality in Japan, 1972 to 2010. (2015)
  • Author(s): Ng CFS, Boeckmann M, Ueda K, Zeeb H, Nitta H, Watanabe C, Honda Y.
  • Organizer: 27th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
  • Place of Presentation: Sao Paolo, Brazil
  • Year and Date: 2015-08-30 – 2015-09-02
  • Int'l Joint Research