Meeting global air quality guidelines could prevent 2. 1 million deaths per year
Source: University of Texas, Date: , 2015
Improving air quality -- in clean and dirty places -- could
potentially avoid millions of pollution-related deaths each year. That finding
comes from a team of environmental engineering and public health researchers
who developed a global model of how changes in outdoor air pollution could lead
to changes in the rates of health problems such as heart attack, stroke and
lung cancer.
Outdoor particulate air pollution results in 3.2 million premature deaths
annually, more than the combined impact of HIV-AIDS and malaria. The
researchers found that meeting the World Health Organization's (WHO)
particulate air quality guidelines could prevent 2.1 million deaths per year
related to outdoor air pollution.