Environmental issues and its harmful effects on human health have attracted attention from global public health. Human-made activities are largely responsible for causing environmental issues, which in turn impact the population. Pollution impacts demographic perspectives such as population size, structure and distribution. Demographers, as experts in the study of statistics relating to human population structural changes, have conducted less research on health outcomes and mortality resulting from pollution compared to scientists and epidemiologists. Demographic methods and concepts may provide insights into how environmental changes affect mortality and enhance future public policy planning. The proposed research aims to apply demographic methodology to assess the number of life-years and healthy years lost as a result of pollution across the Asia-Pacific region by studying; 1) the effects of multiple pollutants on mortality and morbidity in the Asia-Pacific region; 2) cause-specific mortality attributable to indoor and outdoor air pollution; 3) differences in mortality due to pollution emanating from socio-demographic factors; 4) the impact of weather changes on subnational age-specific attributable to outdoor air pollution; and 5) inequalities in healthy life expectancy and unhealthy years attributable to air pollution. The outcome of this research will offer a comprehensive demographic methodology to analyse the impacts of environmental factors on human health and mortality. Also, understanding the negative impacts of particle air pollution on human health is paramount to improve environmental health policies and introduce more effective intervention methods for global public health protection.

Pattheera (Paire) Somboonsin is a PhD candidate in the School of Demography, Her current research interests mortality and morbidity attributable to environmental risk factors, including pollution and climate changes, in Asia-Pacific region. Paire completed her master’s degree of Social Research from the Australian National University in 2019.

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