Overview of particulate air pollution and human health in China: Evidence, challenges, and opportunities

Ambient particulate matter(PM)pollution in China continues to be a major public health challenge.With the release of the new WHO air quality guidelines in 2021,there is an urgent need for China to contemplate a revision of air quality standards(AQS).In the recent decade,there has been an increase in epidemiological studies on PM in China.A comprehensive evaluation of such epidemiological evidence among the Chinese population is central for revision of the AQS in China and in other developing countries with similar air pollution problems.We thus conducted a systematic review on the epidemiological literature of PM published in the recent decade.