The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

PJ Landrigan, R Fuller, NJR Acosta, O Adeyi, R Arnold… - The lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature
death in the world today. Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 …

[HTML][HTML] Pollution and health: a progress update

R Fuller, PJ Landrigan, K Balakrishnan… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was
responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world's largest …

Pollution, health, and the planet: time for decisive action

P Das, R Horton - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
The Lancet Commission on pollution and health by Philip Landrigan and colleagues1 is an
immensely important piece of work highlighting the impact that environmental pollution has …

Air pollution and health

PJ Landrigan - The Lancet Public Health, 2017 - thelancet.com
Air pollution is one of the great killers of our age. Polluted air was responsible in 2015 for 6·
4 million deaths worldwide: 2· 8 million from household air pollution and 4· 2 million from …

Pollution and global health–an agenda for prevention

PJ Landrigan, R Fuller, H Hu… - Environmental …, 2018 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Pollution is a major, overlooked, global health threat that was responsible in 2015 for an
estimated 9 million deaths and great economic losses. To end neglect of pollution and …

Pollution and children's health

PJ Landrigan, R Fuller, S Fisher, WA Suk, P Sly… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Findings The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health found that pollution–air,
water, soil, and chemical pollution-was responsible in 2016 for 940,000 deaths in children …

Air pollution and climate change

AC Pinho-Gomes, E Roaf, G Fuller… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Air pollution and climate change are both threats to population health worldwide. In the UK,
we have seen how climate change is already affecting all the systems on which our health …

Environmental health in China: progress towards clean air and safe water

J Zhang, DL Mauzerall, T Zhu, S Liang, M Ezzati… - The lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
Environmental risk factors, especially air and water pollution, are a major source of morbidity
and mortality in China. Biomass fuel and coal are burned for cooking and heating in almost …

China tackles the health effects of air pollution

Z Chen, JN Wang, GX Ma, YS Zhang - The Lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
With fast economic growth over the past three decades, China became the world's second
largest economy in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2010 and was the world's …

WHO introduces ambitious new air quality guidelines

T Burki - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
An estimated 7 million people die every year as a result of exposure to air pollution, the
overwhelming majority of whom live in low-income and middle-income countries. Health …