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The highest environmentally related health benefits can be expected from policies that effectively target environmental exposures having high contributions to the population burden of disease (BoD). Such policies are demonstrated, for example, by the smoking bans in public places that have shown significant population health improvements in many countries. The health impacts of environmental exposures range from mild effects like annoyance to effects on chronic morbidity such as asthma, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and even premature mortality, challenging the quantitative comparison of alternative policy options.

The environmental burden of disease provides a useful quantitative indicator of environmental health impacts, including chemical pollutants and noise. It allows quantitative comparisons of public health impacts associated with a wide range of environmental risk factors and targeting research and especially risk management to the major issues. This chapter gives an overview of the methods and presents five studies to demonstrate the use of the concepts.

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Acknowledgments

This text is based, among other cited sources, on work and materials produced in the EBoDE project (by intramural funding by the participating institutes); HEALTHVENT project (by EU Health Programme Grant Nr. 2009 12 08,). Indoor exposure dependency on aerosol sizes was developed in TRANSPHORM (by EU FP7) and PMSIZEX (by Academy of Finland). Parallel work on health risk assessment was supported by the COST Action IS1408. Collaborators in these projects are warmly thanked for their intellectual contributions. The French study was supported by the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses; Grant n°CRD-2011-11) and the French Indoor Air Quality Observatory.

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  1. Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Environmental Epidemiology, Environmental Health, Health Security, Kuopio, Finland

    Otto Hänninen

  2. Scientific and Technical Center for Building (CSTB), Paris, France

    Corinne Mandin

  3. Institute for Health and Environment, Chongqing University of Science and Technology, Chongqing, China

    Wei Liu

  4. Department of Building Science, Tsinghua University; Beijing Key Lab of Indoor Air Quality Control and Evaluation, Beijing, China

    Ningrui Liu & Yinping Zhang

  5. Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Zhuohui Zhao

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Hänninen, O., Mandin, C., Liu, W., Liu, N., Zhao, Z., Zhang, Y. (2022). Disease Burden of Indoor Air Pollution. In: Zhang, Y., Hopke, P.K., Mandin, C. (eds) Handbook of Indoor Air Quality. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5155-5_48-2

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