The impact of air pollution on mortality in Shanghai

Climate change, air pollution and improving public health are some of the most serious challenges facing humankind at the beginning of the twenty-first century. While considerable effort has been made to understand the impact of changing climatic conditions and air quality on population health, our knowledge of their relationship is still rather limited, and this is especially the case in developing countries, where detailed and reliable data for environmental conditions and population health are often difficult to find. To further improve our knowledge of declining mortality rates in the past half-century, the major characteristics of current mortality patterns and their