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The combined effects of ambient air pollution and household air pollution is associated with 7 million premature deaths annually. Sources of air pollution are multiple and context specific. The major outdoor pollution sources include residential energy for cooking and heating, vehicles, power generation, agriculture/waste incineration, and ...
Ambient air pollution is a major environmental health problem affecting everyone in low-, middle-, and high-income countries. It causes 4.2 million premature deaths per year and is associated with cardiovascular, respiratory and other diseases.
Air pollution is a major environmental health problem affecting everyone, especially in low- and middle-income countries. It causes heart and respiratory diseases, lung cancer, strokes, and premature deaths, especially in children.
Air pollution causes various health outcomes, such as respiratory infections, heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer, and is the second leading cause of NCDs globally. WHO provides evidence, guidance, and support to countries to reduce air pollution and its impacts on health.
Air pollution is a public health emergency that causes 7 million premature deaths per year and affects various organs and systems. WHO developed a toolkit and an online course to equip health professionals with knowledge and skills to assess and mitigate the health risks of air pollution.
Pollutants not only severely impact public health, but also the earth’s climate and ecosystems globally. Most policies to reduce air pollution offer a “win-win” strategy for both health and climate. Lower levels of air pollution result in better cardiovascular and respiratory health of populations in both the long- and short-term. Reducing ambient and household air pollution can also ...
Air pollution is one of the greatest environmental risk to health. Air pollution leads people to be exposed to fine particles in polluted air that penetrate deep into the lungs and cardiovascular system, causing diseases including stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and respiratory infections.
Around 2.4 billion people cook and heat their homes with polluting fuels and every year 3.2 million people die prematurely from household air pollution. More than 99% of the population live in areas where the air pollution is above WHO air quality guidelines and 4.2 million deaths are attributed to ambient air pollution each year.
WHO updates its air quality guidelines to reflect the latest evidence of the damage air pollution inflicts on human health, at lower concentrations than previously understood. The guidelines recommend new air quality levels for 6 pollutants, and provide interim targets to facilitate stepwise improvement and save millions of lives.
WHO monitors the exposure of air pollution and its health impacts (deaths, DALYs) at the national, regional and global level from ambient (outdoor) and household air pollution. Such estimates are used for official reporting like the world health statistics, and the Sustainable Development Goals. The Air Pollution Data Portal includes Burden of Disease statistics, air quality databases and ...