Fig. 2: The shape constrained health impact functions for the community-based Guangdong cohort, with monotonically increasing overall trends.
From: Health impact assessment on life expectancy gains ascribed to particulate matter reduction
SCHIF, shape constrained health impact function. Hazard ratios for PM10 and PM2.5 were predicted using the expectation of the posterior distribution from the Bayesian modeling framework. As shown in Table S1, the observed range for PM10 varied from 33.69–80.84 \(\mu g/{m}^{3}\), whereas the observed range for PM2.5 varied from 19.50–53.48 \(\mu g/{m}^{3}\). Based on the SCHIF, the curves of hazard ratios were extended to cover the predicted range of concentration levels.
