An assessment of air pollution and its attributable mortality in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Epidemiologic studies have consistently reported associations between outdoor fine particulate matter (PM) air pollution and adverse health effects. Although Asia bears the majority of the public health burden from air pollution, few epidemiologic studies have been conducted outside of North America and Europe due in part to challenges in population exposure assessment. We assessed the feasibility of two current exposure assessment techniques, land use regression (LUR) modeling and mobile monitoring, and estimated the mortality attributable to air pollution in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.