PM2.5 and Catastrophic Health Expenditure Analysis

A dataset examining the relationship between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure and catastrophic health expenditure. The 9.5 KB XLS file was authored by Huan He and last updated on April 21, 2026. It is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license on the figshare platform.

Use Cases

• Modeling the financial risk of air pollution based on the described PM2.5 and health expenditure relationship
• Conducting cost-of-illness studies for environmental diseases based on the catastrophic expenditure metric
• Informing public policy on pollution control and health insurance based on the economic burden analysis

Strengths

• Dataset is openly licensed (CC-BY-4.0) for reuse and redistribution.
• File size is precisely known (9.5 KB), indicating a small, focused dataset.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Huan He via figshare

Collection Method

Method of data gathering is not described.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-21 17:48:39; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Geographic scope is not specified.