Background The health impacts of ambient air pollution impose large costs on society.
Although all people are exposed to air pollution, the older population (ie, those aged≥ 60 …

Background. Household air pollution (HAP) due to the use of solid fuels for cooking is a
global problem with significant impacts on human health, especially in low-and middle …

Background More than 3 billion people do not have access to clean energy and primarily
use solid fuels to cook. Use of solid fuels generates household air pollution, which was …

Table A2. 1: Deaths attributable to AAP in 2012 in both sex, by disease and country Table
A2. 2: Deaths attributable to AAP in 2012 in women, by disease and country Table A2. 3 …

Background Long-term exposure to ambient and household particulate matter (PM2. 5)
causes death and health loss, and both are the leading risk factor to global disease burden …

Particulate air pollution causes a spectrum of adverse health effects affecting the respiratory,
cardiovascular, neurological, and metabolic systems that are hypothesised to be driven by …

Background Previous global burden of disease (GBD) estimates for household air pollution
(HAP) from solid cookfuel use were based on categorical indicators of exposure. Recent …

In the comparative risk assessment (Lim et al. 2012), performed as part of the Global Burden
of Disease (GBD) 2010 Project, air pollution ranked as a leading contributor to the burden of …

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Background The association of air pollution with multiple adverse health outcomes is
becoming well established, but its negative economic impact is less well appreciated. It is …