Since the publication of the first epidemiological study to establish the connection between
long‐term exposure to atmospheric pollution and effects on human health, major efforts …

Abstract The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) is a comparative assessment of the health
impact of the major and well-established risk factors, including ambient air pollution (AAP) …

As part of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Burden of Disease Comparative
Risk Assessment, the burden of disease attributable to urban ambient air pollution was …

Background: Exposure to ozone and fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) can cause adverse
health effects, including premature mortality due to cardiopulmonary diseases and lung …

Exposure to ambient air pollution is a major global health risk factor. Using recently updated
hazard ratio functions, we estimate that the global premature mortality burden attributable to …

Introduction To characterize air pollution exposure at a fine spatial scale, different exposure
assessment methods have been applied. Comparison of associations with health from …

Background Growing urbanisation and population requiring enhanced electricity generation
as well as the increasing numbers of fossil fuel in Thailand pose important challenges to air …

Aims Long-term exposure of humans to air pollution enhances the risk of cardiovascular and
respiratory diseases. A novel Global Exposure Mortality Model (GEMM) has been derived …

BACKGROUND Growing scientific evidence indicates that effects of air pollution on health
are observed at concentrations below current air quality standards. Combined with the large …

The recent proliferation of cohort studies of long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate air
pollution and mortality has led to a significant increase in knowledge about this important …