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Impacts of pollution on health in China

Recommended by dr. Jennifer Holdaway

Note: these are mostly general reports and analysis. For specific topics, search resource hub at http://ceh.resourcehub.ssrc.org/

 

Integrated analyses and overviews

 

1. Junfeng Zhang, Denise L. Mauzerall, Tong Zhu, Song Liang, Majid Ezzati, Justin V Remais. (2010.)

Environmental health in China: progress towards clean air and safe water.

Lancet, Vol. 375, pp.1110-19.

Available at:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)60062-1/abstract.


2. 王五一,杨林生,李海蓉,李永华 2010

中国的环境变化健康风险管理对策

环境与健康:跨学科视角。

社会科学文献出版社 (2540)

Wang Wuyi, Yan Linsheng, Li Hairong and Li Yonghua. (2010).

Zhongguo huanjing bianhua fengxian guanli duice. (Management responses to health risks arising from environmental change in China).

in Jennifer Holdaway, Wang Wuyi, Zhang Shiqiu and Ye Jingzhong, (eds). (2010).

Huanjing yu Jiankang: kuaxueke shjiao (Environment and Health: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives).

Beijing: Social Science Academies Press, pp. 25-40.

 
3. WHO, Environmental Health Country Profile, China

China Council for International Collaboration on Environment and Development, Environment and Health Management System and Policy Framework (12 November, 2008)

Geneva: WHO, 2005

Аvailable at:

http://www.cciced.net/encciced/policyr/Taskforces/phase4/tfeh/200909/t20090930_162009.htm


4. World Bank and State Environmental Protection Agency. (2007).

The Cost of Pollution in China: Economic Estimates of Physical Damages.

Washington, DC.

Available at: www.worldbank.org/eapenvironment

 
5. World Health Organization and United Nations Development Programme (2001).

Environment and People’s Health in China (WHO/UNDP: 2001).

Available at:

http://www.wpro.who.int/NR/rdonlyres/CDB68D58-C3C6-4EC0-AC09-F2F9DAE7890E/0/CHNEnvironmentalHealth.pdf

 
6. World Bank (1997)

Clear Water Blue Skies: China’s Environment in the New Century.

Washington, DC: World Bank.

Available at:

http://www.worldbank.org/research/1997/09/694613/clear-water-blue-skies-chinas-environment-new-century

 

7. Kira Matus, Kyung-Min Nam, Noelle E. Selin, Lok N. Lamsal, John M. Reilly and Sergey Paltsev (March, 2011).

Health Damages of Air Pollution in China.

MIT Joint Program on Science and Policy Global Change, Report 196.

Available at: http://globalchange.mit.edu/files/document/MITJPSPGC_Rpt196.pdf

 
8. Mun S. Ho and Chris P. Nielsen (eds). (2007).

Clearing the Air: The Health and Economic Damages of Air Pollution in China.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

 

Environment


9. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Western China

Available at:

http://www.maweb.org/documents_sga/Western%20China%20SGA%20Report%20(English).pdf

 

10. OECD

Working Party on Environmental Performance, Environmental Performance Review of China: Conclusions and Recommendations.

Beijing, 2006.

Available at: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/58/23/37657409.pdf


Health


10. World Bank, Human Development Unit. (2011).

Towards a Healthy and Harmonious Life in China: Stemming the Rising Tide of Non-Communicable Diseases.

Available at:

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2011/07/25/000333037_20110725011735/Rendered/PDF/634260WP00Box30official0use0only090.pdf


11. 世界银行人类发展局(2011年)

创建健康和谐生活:遏制中国慢性病流行

Available at:

http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2011/11/17/000333038_20111117222839/Rendered/PDF/634260REVISED00UBLIC00ncd0report0cn.pdf


12. Pengqian Fang, Siping Dong, Jingjing Xiao, Chaojie Liu, Xianwei Feng, Yiping Wang. (2010).

Regional inequality in health and its determinants: Evidence from China.

Health Policy, Vol. 94, pp. 14–25.

 

13. Wagstaff, A., Yip,W., Lindelow, M., & Hsiao, W. (2009).

China’s health system and its reform: a review of recent studies.

Health Economics, Vol.18, pp. 7-23.

 

14. Ministry of Health (2008)

我国2007年卫生事业发展统计报告

2007 nian woguo weisheng shiye fazhan tongji baogao” (“National Health Services Development Report 2007”)

Available at:

http://www.moh.gov.cn/publicfiles/business/htmlfiles/mohbgt/s6689/200804/33525.htm