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Health impact assessment (HIA) followed the framework used in Nordic studies and the VALESOR project, applying a near-source PM2.5\u2013mortality exposure\u2013response function with a relative risk of 1.26 per 10 \u00b5g\/m3 for natural-cause mortality and VALESOR default functions for morbidity (ischaemic heart disease, stroke, COPD, lung cancer, type 2 diabetes, dementia, childhood asthma, cardiovascular hospital admissions). Attributable cases and years of life lost (YLL) were estimated, and the economic valuation used VALESOR unit costs for Sweden to derive central, low and high damage-cost estimates. Results: The population (n = 280,742)-weighted mean RWC-PM2.5 exposure was 0.16 \u00b5g\/m3 (interquartile range 0.10\u20130.21). This was associated with an estimated 30 years of life lost (YLL) per year from natural-cause mortality, plus incident morbidity of approximately 0.3 lung cancer cases, four childhood asthma cases, three COPD cases, three IHD events, one stroke, two dementia cases, one diabetes case and 0.8 cardiovascular hospital admissions annually. The total annual health-related cost attributable to RWC-PM2.5 was about \u20ac7.0 million (95% uncertainty range \u20ac4.6\u20139.4 million), dominated by mortality and disutility costs. Conclusions: PM2.5 concentrations from residential wood burning are associated with health impacts costing multi-million Euros in a Nordic region, supporting policies to reduce emissions from residential wood heating and to promote cleaner heating alternatives.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph23081053","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,13]],"date-time":"2026-08-13T17:01:35Z","timestamp":1786640495000},"page":"1053","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Health Economic Assessment of PM2.5 Originating from Residential Wood Combustion\u2014A Case Study in Northern Sweden"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8854-498X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Johan","family":"Sommar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Ume\u00e5 University, SE 901 87 Umea, Sweden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Joseph","family":"Spadaro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Spadaro Environmental Research Consultants (SERC), Philadelphia, PA 19142, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0355-2153","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Christian","family":"Asker","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Meteorology Research Unit, Swedish Meteorological & Hydrological Institute, SE 601 76 Norrk\u00f6ping, Sweden"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7965-9451","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hans","family":"Orru","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Ume\u00e5 University, SE 901 87 Umea, Sweden"},{"name":"Institute of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of Tartu, 50090 Tartu, Estonia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"8057","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.est.5b01236","article-title":"Addressing global mortality from ambient PM2.5","volume":"49","author":"Apte","year":"2015","journal-title":"Environ. 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