Lin, R-T;
Christiani, DC;
Kawachi, I;
Chan, T-C;
Chiang, P-H;
Chan, C-C;
(2016)
Increased Risk of Respiratory Mortality Associated with the High-Tech Manufacturing Industry: A 26-Year Study.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
, 13
(6)
, Article 557. 10.3390/ijerph13060557.
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Abstract
Global high-tech manufacturers are mainly located in newly industrialized countries, raising concerns about adverse health consequences from industrial pollution for people living nearby. We investigated the ecological association between respiratory mortality and the development of Taiwan's high-tech manufacturing, taking into account industrialization and socioeconomic development, for 19 cities and counties-6 in the science park group and 13 in the control group-from 1982 to 2007. We applied a linear mixed-effects model to analyze how science park development over time is associated with age-adjusted and sex-specific mortality rates for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Asthma and female COPD mortality rates decreased in both groups, but they decreased 9%-16% slower in the science park group. Male COPD mortality rates increased in both groups, but the rate increased 10% faster in the science park group. Science park development over time was a significant predictor of death from asthma (p ≤ 0.0001) and COPD (p = 0.0212). The long-term development of clustered high-tech manufacturing may negatively affect nearby populations, constraining health advantages that were anticipated, given overall progress in living standards, knowledge, and health services. National governments should incorporate the long-term health effects on local populations into environmental impact assessments.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Increased Risk of Respiratory Mortality Associated with the High-Tech Manufacturing Industry: A 26-Year Study |
| Location: | Switzerland |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph13060557 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13060557 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, economic development, environment and public health, industrial development, socioeconomic factors, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Asthma, Cause of Death, Environmental Exposure, Environmental Pollution, Female, Forecasting, Humans, Male, Manufacturing Industry, Middle Aged, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, Risk Factors, Socioeconomic Factors, Taiwan |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10037722 |
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