AirQ+: key features

Overview

AirQ+ is designed to calculate the magnitude of the impacts of air pollution on health in a given population. It handles long- and short-term exposure to ambient air pollution from several pollutants, and long-term exposure to household air pollution from solid fuel use. AirQ+ can be used for any city, country or region to estimate: 1)‎ How much of a particular health outcome is attributable to selected air pollutants? 2)‎ Compared to the current scenario, what would be the change in health effects if air pollution levels changed in the future? All calculations performed by AirQ+ are based on methodologies and concentration-response functions established by epidemiological studies. The concentration – response functions used in the software are based on the systematic review of all studies available until 2013 and their meta-analysis.