{"doi":"10.3389/phrs.2024.1606969","title":"Two Decades of Air Pollution Health Risk Assessment: Insights From the Use of WHO’s AirQ and AirQ+ Tools","abstract":"Objectives: We evaluated studies that used the World Health Organization's (WHO) AirQ and AirQ+ tools for air pollution (AP) health risk assessment (HRA) and provided best practice suggestions for future assessments. Methods: We performed a comprehensive review of studies using WHO's AirQ and AirQ+ tools, searching several databases for relevant articles, reports, and theses from inception to Dec 31, 2022. Results: We identified 286 studies that met our criteria. The studies were conducted in 69 countries, with most (57%) in Iran, followed by Italy and India (∼8% each). We found that many studies inadequately report air pollution exposure data, its quality, and validity. The decisions concerning the analysed population size, health outcomes of interest, baseline incidence, concentration-response functions, relative risk values, and counterfactual values are often not justified, sufficiently. Many studies lack an uncertainty assessment. Conclusion: Our review found a number of common shortcomings in the published assessments. We suggest better practices and urge future studies to focus on the quality of input data, its reporting, and associated uncertainties.","journal":"Public health reviews","year":2024,"id":426494,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":17,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9201,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1225399,"name":"Fatemeh Yousefian","orcid":"0000-0003-2749-4728","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1225400,"name":"Sasan Faridi","orcid":"0000-0002-8855-8337","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":620807,"name":"Zorana Jovanovic Andersen","orcid":"0000-0003-4138-9828","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1225873,"name":"E Calas","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1225401,"name":"Alberto Castro","orcid":"0000-0002-4665-3299","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1225402,"name":"Karla Cervantes-Martínez","orcid":"0000-0001-5480-5750","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":404366,"name":"Tom Cole‐Hunter","orcid":"0000-0002-6827-6084","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1225874,"name":"Magali Corso","orcid":null,"position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1225875,"name":"Nataša Dragić","orcid":null,"position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":906912,"name":"Dimitris Evangelopoulos","orcid":"0000-0002-1071-6892","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1225403,"name":"Christian Gapp","orcid":"0000-0002-6233-6066","position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":404656,"name":"Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand","orcid":"0000-0003-2916-5370","position":12,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1225876,"name":"Ingu Kim","orcid":null,"position":13,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1225404,"name":"Alain Le Tertre","orcid":"0000-0001-5346-216X","position":14,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1225877,"name":"Sylvia Médina","orcid":null,"position":15,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":364786,"name":"Brian G. 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