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More than 2 billion people are exposed to at least one day of potentially health-impacting environmental hazard annuallya figure that has increased by 6.8 per cent in the last 10 years, according to alarming results from the study of two decades of global smoke pollution...
The study, published in the journal Nature, highlights the severity and scale of the landscape fire-sourced air pollution, its increased impact on the worlds population and associated rise in public health risk...
Exposure to fire-sourced air pollution has many adverse health impacts, including increased mortality and morbidity and a global worsening of cardiorespiratory conditions and mental health...
The exposure to air pollution caused by landscape fire smoke travelling hundreds and sometimes even thousands of kilometres can affect much larger populations, and cause much larger public health risks, said Professor Yuming Guo from Monashs School of Population Health and Preventive Medicine...
Mapping and tracking the population exposure to landscape fire-sourced air pollution are essential for monitoring and managing its health impacts, implementing targeted prevention and interventions, and strengthening arguments for mitigation of climate change, he added...
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