Evaluation on effects of Qingdao air pollution on economic loss of human health

  Objective   To synthetically evaluate the air pollution of Qingdao cantonal district from 1981 to 2000 and retrospectively analyze the influences of air pollution on people's health.

  Methods   To make the evaluation by air quality synthetical index and quatitatively evaluate the economic loss from the air pollution by a corrected human capital method.

  Results   There is a high incidence of respiratory diseases in the cantonal districts and a higher incidence of lung cancer than the contrast districts.

  Conclusion   Air pollution is one of the important environmental factors that do harm to people's health and pollution from nitric oxygenate should also be attached importance to.