Health impact assessment of air pollution policies using big data.

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K10499
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 58030:Hygiene and public health-related: excluding laboratory approach
• Research Institution: Okayama University
• Principal Investigator: TSUDA Toshihide 岡山大学, 環境生命自然科学学域, 教授 (20231433)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 頼藤 貴志 岡山大学, 医歯薬学域, 教授 (00452566) ; 鈴木 越治 岡山大学, 医歯薬学域, 研究准教授 (10627764) ; 鹿嶋 小緒里 広島大学, 先進理工系科学研究科(国), 准教授 (30581699)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 大気汚染 / 環境政策

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, we focused on environmental policies, in particular traffic controls at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, and attempted to assess their impact on improving air pollution concentrations and health outcomes. However, because the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics themselves were held in the midst of an epidemic of new coronavirus infections, the impact of new coronavirus infections was included in the assessment. The study assessed the association between air pollution exposure and diabetes and new coronavirus infection, as well as the impact of the new coronavirus infection epidemic on disease.

Free Research Field

公衆衛生学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

大気汚染物質の健康影響に関しては、国内・国外とも関心が高まっており、本研究により大気汚染の健康影響に関する知見を提供できた。特に、最近注目されている微小粒子状物質（PM2.5）の健康影響に関しては国内でも知見が少なく、国内・海外の大気汚染対策・公衆衛生政策にも寄与するものと思われる。