Air pollution and health

TitleAir pollution and health
Publication TypeJournal Article
AuthorsLandrigan, Philip J.
JournalThe Lancet Public Health
Volume2
Issue1
Paginatione4-e5
ISSN2468-2667
Abstract

Air pollution is one of the great killers of our age.
Polluted air was responsible in 2015 for 6·4 million
deaths worldwide: 2·8 million from household air
pollution and 4·2 million from ambient air pollution.1,2
In the same year, tobacco caused 7 million deaths,
AIDS 1·2 million, tuberculosis 1·1 million, and malaria
0·7 million.3 In the absence of aggressive control,
ambient air pollution is projected by 2060 to cause
between 6 million and 9 million deaths per year.4

URLhttp://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(16)30023-8/abstract
DOI10.1016/S2468-2667(16)30023-8