A Method to Assess the Potential Effects of Air Pollution Mitigation on Healthcare Costs

Table 1

Characteristics of the populations at baseline.

	CHD	Stroke	COPD	COPD	Lung cancer
			before	after
Number of cases	20,083	13,632	7,712	9,058	10,200
Age	72.1	73.9	71.3	70.2	67.0
Women (%)	46.4	52.7	51.9	50.3	42.4
Married (%)	55.3	48.6	48.9	55.1	61.1
Charlson score	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	1.2
Education (%)
Unskilled	74.9	78.6	63.2	76.6	64.8
Skilled	18.2	15.5	28.0	18.3	26.8
Higher education	6.9	5.9	8.8	5.2	8.4
Socioeconomic status (%)
White collar	6.7	4.6	2.9	3.6	5.2
Blue collar	10.5	7.3	9.7	7.4	11.3
Unemployed	1.7	1.3	1.6	1.8	1.7
Outside labour market	81.1	86.9	85.8	87.2	81.8