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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Environmental and Public Health Volume 2012, Article ID 935825, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/935825 Research Article A Method to Assess the Potential Effects of Air Pollution Mitigation on Healthcare Costs Bjørn Sætterstrøm,1 Marie Kruse,1, 2 Henrik Brønnum-Hansen,3 Jakob Hjort Bønløkke,4 Esben Meulengracht Flachs,5 and Jan Sørensen1 1 Centre for Applied Health Services Research and Technology Assessment, University of Southern Denmark, J.B. Winsløws Vej 9B, 1, 5000 Odense C, Denmark 2 The Danish Institute for Health Services Research, Dampfærgevej 27-29, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark 3 Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark 4 Institute of Public Health, Aarhus University, Bartholins Alle 2, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark ´ 5 National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Øster Farimagsgade 5A, 2, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark Correspondence should be addressed to Bjørn Sætterstrøm, bjsa@sdu.dk Received 28 March 2012; Accepted 14 June 2012 Academic Editor: Mahfuzar Rahman Copyright © 2012 Bjørn Sætterstrøm et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective. The aim of this study was to develop a method to assess the potential effects of air pollution mitigation on healthcare costs and to apply this method to assess the potential savings related to a reduction in fine particle matter in Denmark. Methods. The effects of air pollution on health were used to identi