Evaluating the Impact of Air Pollution on Health of Individuals Using a Dynamic Approach (Case Study : Tehran City)

In the past years, the increasing trend of air pollution in metropoles around the world has turned this into a serious challenge, and its negative impacts have developed in different social, environmental and economic fields. Undoubtedly, one of the negative and serious impacts is the increasing number of patients due to air pollution. This research aims to evaluate the effects of air pollution on people's health using a systematic analysis approach. Dynamic hypotheses along with causal and state flow diagrams have been made for this purpose. Results of the proposed model suggest that developing public transportation and landscapes, as well as building culture in order to reduce the use of personal automobiles could be efficient dynamic policies for escaping the air pollution crisis and subsequently reducing the number of patients caused by it