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The deleterious effects of ambient air pollution on human health have been consistently
documented by many epidemiologic studies worldwide, and it has been calculated that …

Abstract “Air pollution and population health” is one of the most important environmental and
public health issues. Economic development, urbanization, energy consumption …

Air pollution is high on the global agenda and is widely recognised as a threat to both public
health and economic progress. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 4.2 …

This paper is a first attempt at calculating the cost of air pollution in Africa. More precisely, it
is a calculation of the major part of this cost: namely, the cost of premature deaths …

One of today's greatest ills is pollution, which not only contributes to climate change but also
negatively affects public and individual health by raising morbidity and mortality rates …

Air pollution causes millions of premature deaths worldwide every year, as confirmed in
each of the recent Global Burden of Disease surveys by the Institute for Health Metrics and …

Exposure to air pollution results in an estimated 7 million deaths each year, said the World
Health Organization (WHO), double its previous estimate. This suggests that air pollution …

Although continuous efforts to monitor and mitigate air pollution are being made, it is still
prevalent in most countries in the world. Major contributors include fossil fuel exhaust in …

The quantification of environmental-related health effects and their valuation in monetary
units play a key role for a sustainability-oriented planning of policy measures. The present …