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Air pollution contributed to 8.1 million deaths worldwide in 2021, with India and China recording 2.1 million and 2.3 million fatalities, respectively, according to a report released on Wednesday...
Published by Health Effects Institute (HEI), an independent US-based research organisation, in partnership with UNICEF, the report also highlighted that air pollution claimed lives of 1,69,400 children in India under the age of five in 2021...
Taken together, air pollution from PM2.5 and ozone was estimated to contribute to 8.1 million deaths about 12 per cent of the total global deaths in 2021...
This new report offers a stark reminder of the significant impacts air pollution has on human health, with far too much of the burden borne by young children, older populations, and low- and middle-income countries, said Pallavi Pant, HEIs head of Global Health...
This points sharply to an opportunity for cities and countries to consider air quality and air pollution as high-risk factors when developing health policies and other non-communicable disease prevention and control programs, Pant said.. #China #Environment #Pollution.
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