Research on Legal Issues of Compensation for Human Health Damage Caused by Environmental Pollution

Abstract

Compared with property damage caused by environmental pollution, citizens' health should be treated with the highest courtesy of the law. Physical health is an individual's essential living condition, and environmental health damage is the most harmful to society. Due to environmental pollution, the consequences of the damage to residents' health are severe and irreversible. In this regard, people who unfortunately suffer from environmental health damage are often in unbearable pain and are prone to pessimism and misanthropy, which in turn develops into dissatisfaction or even hostility toward society, affecting the normal functioning of society. This paper mainly discusses the following three aspects: First, from the connotation of environmental infringement and environmental pollution-induced damage to human health, it analyzes the harm and characteristics of environmental pollution to the human body and clarifies the basic theory of environmental pollution-induced damage to human health. Secondly, the DICE model measures the health damage caused by PM2.5 resulting from environmental pollution to the human body. It also puts forward the relevant legal compensation system for human body damage caused by environmental pollution in the country and provides relevant suggestions for improving the system. © 2025 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan and Wiley Periodicals LLC.