Abstract
Air contamination influenced the human health and environmental well-being of the ecosystem. Particulate matter is a series of issues from major air pollutants in atmosphere. The aim of the review was to analyses the influence of particulate matter on human health and estimate the number of populations exposed to air pollution. The data analysed using the Environmental Benefits Mapping Analysis program model to selected African provinces. The review used 15% rollback data from the global burden disease and 5.8 µg/m³ the concentration of air pollutants from 1990 to 2013 years. The main findings of the study revealed that about 370 million (36.6%) population affected by air pollution. Besides, the risk factor associated with a population was 53,000 deaths per total population and 50,000 life-year losses. The economic value estimated to avoid a single case of particular matter on human health effect were estimated 14 billion dollars (US 2011). Priorities should be given to air quality management to improve the human and environmental health of ecosystems to reduce the global burden of disease of Africa regions.
Acknowledgement
I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to Stefani Penn and Natalie Weiss who supported and give the training on BenMAP software and Addis Ababa Environmental Protection and Greening commission. Secondly, I would also like to thank Kotebe Metropolitan University, Department Environmental Management and my friends who helped me a lot to finalize this study and give their helpful comments within the limited time frame.
Research funding: The mini-review of the paper is not supported by any funding sources or organizations.
Author contribution: The author designed the mini-review concept, drafted the manuscript, and made revisions to the manuscript. The author reviewed and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The author declares no conflict of interest.
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