AirQ+

{{short description|Software to assess the impact of air population on health}}

{{Orphan|date=November 2021}}

AirQ+ is a free software for Windows and Linux operating systems developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe. The program calculates the magnitude of several health effects associated to exposure to the most relevant air pollutants in a given population. AirQ+ has been used in the BreatheLife campaign{{Cite web | url=https://breathelife2030.org/news/air-pollution-responsible-one-five-premature-deaths-19-western-balkan-cities/ | title=Air pollution is responsible for up to one in five premature deaths in 19 Western Balkan cities | date=10 June 2019 | access-date=2019-06-19 | archive-date=2019-07-10 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710113535/https://breathelife2030.org/news/air-pollution-responsible-one-five-premature-deaths-19-western-balkan-cities/ | url-status=live }} and in numerous studies aimed at measuring long-term exposure to ambient particulate matter PM_2.5.{{cite journal |last1=Ansari |first1=Mohsen |last2=Ehrampoush |first2=Mohammad Hassan |title=Meteorological correlates and AirQ+ health risk assessment of ambient fine particulate matter in Tehran, Iran |journal=Environmental Research |date=March 2019 |volume=170 |pages=141–150 |doi=10.1016/j.envres.2018.11.046 |pmid=30579988 |bibcode=2019ER....170..141A |s2cid=58561217 }}{{cite journal |last1=Oliveri Conti |first1=Gea |last2=Heibati |first2=Behzad |last3=Kloog |first3=Itai |last4=Fiore |first4=Maria |last5=Ferrante |first5=Margherita |title=A review of AirQ Models and their applications for forecasting the air pollution health outcomes |journal=Environmental Science and Pollution Research |date=4 January 2017 |volume=24 |issue=7 |pages=6426–6445 |doi=10.1007/s11356-016-8180-1 |pmid=28054264 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2017ESPR...24.6426O }}{{cite journal |last1=De Marco |first1=Alessandra |last2=Amoatey |first2=Patrick |last3=Khaniabadi |first3=Yusef Omidi |last4=Sicard |first4=Pierre |last5=Hopke |first5=Philip K. |title=Mortality and morbidity for cardiopulmonary diseases attributed to PM2.5 exposure in the metropolis of Rome, Italy |journal=European Journal of Internal Medicine |date=November 2018 |volume=57 |pages=49–57 |doi=10.1016/j.ejim.2018.07.027 |pmid=30122285 |s2cid=52041310 }}{{cite journal |last1=Todorović |first1=M. N. |last2=Radenković |first2=M. B. |last3=Rajšić |first3=S. F. |last4=Ignjatović |first4=Lj. M. |title=Evaluation of mortality attributed to air pollution in the three most populated cities in Serbia |journal=International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology |date=27 April 2019 |volume=16 |issue=11 |pages=7059–7070 |doi=10.1007/s13762-019-02384-6 |bibcode=2019JEST...16.7059T |s2cid=149574200 }} The first version of the program, AirQ, was distributed in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program in 1999, followed by another version of AirQ for Windows in 2000, 2004 and 2005. AirQ+ 1.0 was released in May 2016. A substantial difference between AirQ and AirQ+ is that AirQ+ contains a new graphical user interface with several help texts and various features to input and analyse data and illustrate results. AirQ+ version AirQ+ 1.2 was released in May 2017, followed by 1.3 in October 2018. Version 2.0 was released in November 2019, version 2.1 in May 2021 and version 2.2 in March 2023. It is available in the official languages of the WHO European Region: English, French, German and Russian.{{cite journal |last1=Gumy |first1=Sophie |last2=Mudu |first2=Pierpaolo |title=News on air pollution and health data and impacts on health from the World Health Organization |journal=Clean Air Journal |date=2018 |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=6 |doi=10.17159/2410-972X/2018/v28n1a2 |doi-access=free }} A Polish version of AirQ+ is also available since 2023 and Spanish, Arab and Farsi versions are planned for 2025.