Health Matters Air Pollution
Health matters air pollution friday 11 january 2019 air pollution causes around 40 000 premature deaths per year in the uk and levels of nitrogen dioxide have been illegally high since 2010 in the vast majority of urban areas in the uk.
Health matters air pollution. Around 91 of the world s population lives in places where air quality levels exceed who limits. Poor air quality is the largest environmental risk to public health in the uk as long term exposure to air pollution can cause chronic conditions such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases as well as lung cancer leading to reduced life expectancy. Ambient air pollution accounts for an estimated 4 2 million deaths per year due to stroke heart disease lung cancer and chronic respiratory diseases.
Poor air quality can also have an economic. It is estimated that long term exposure to air. A serious but solvable public health problem air.
Long term exposure to air pollution reduces life expectancy by increasing deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory conditions and from lung cancer. Health aspects of air pollution with particulate matter ozone and nitrogen dioxide report on a who working group bonn germany 13 15 january 2003 2003. May 06 october 13 2018 air pollution pollution 570 000 children under 5 die every year as a result of respiratory distress attributable to air pollution 1 7 million child deaths due to all causes of pollution.
Welcome to the latest edition of health matters phe s professional resource which for this edition focuses on the sources and health impacts of air pollution as well as the actions that local government healthcare professionals and the public can take to reduce exposure and improve air quality. Poor air quality is the largest environmental risk to public health in the uk as long term exposure to air pollution can cause chronic conditions such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases as. The clean air act authorizes the u s.
The environment audit committee has estimated that total health costs as a result of air pollution range between 8 5 billion and 20 2 billion a year.