Projecting Vulnerability of Indonesia to Particulate Matter-Associated Lung Cancer: Public-Accessible Data Analysis

Air pollution has been concerning yet it has not been firmly addressed. As the advancement of technology and bulked up population are both inevitable, air pollution remains troublesome to manage. Air pollution has been associated with many respiratory-associated diseases, one of which is lung cancer. Lung cancer is the top deadly fatal cancer globally as well as in Indonesia. This study was aimed to detect a plausible interaction of air pollution contributors being that PM
10
, PM
2.5
and CO
2
emissions, and lung cancer death rate. We incorporated metadata provided parallelly by Macrotrends, the Central Bureau of Statistics Republic of Indonesia andseveral published reports to produce a regression-based model. We learned that hitherto in almost all aspects vital data in Indonesia are poorly available. This leads to scattered data thus hard to be tailored into paramount information. Our model was intended to fill this gap therefore people’s and stakeholders’ understanding on the actual problem could be elevated. Our results demonstrate that the increase of CO
2
emissions is positively correlated with lung cancer deaths. In contrast, PM
2.5
and PM
10
are negatively correlated with lung cancer deaths. This is surprising owing to the well-accepted carcinogenic properties of these both. These profiles reflectmore on the data quality than the actual death burden which indicates the need of data availability as well as integration multisectorally. Overall, our results are expected to raise moreattention from the relevant stakeholders in Indonesia to improve or re-strategize intervention for the air pollution as this firmly carries adverse effects on health.