iSThAT is a simplified methodological framework and accompanying software tool for the evaluation of the health and economic benefits of carbon reduction measures in the context of urban transportation. The tool supports the identification of alternative transportation choices based on sound, reproducible, science-based reasoning. Additionally, it is a user-friendly, interactive Excel-based tool f...

This report shows situation of ambient air pollution in Accra, Ghana and its implications to public health. For the health risk assessment, values collected and modelled reveal that (1) for the city of Accra: PM2.5 average concentration levels equal to 49.5 μg/m3, from residential monitoring stations in 2014–2015; and (2) for the whole Greater Accra region: PM2.5 average equal to 36.0 μg/m3, from ...

This report includes discussions on transport and health data availability, and analysis for specific transport scenarios for the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), using the Integrated Sustainable Transport Health Assessment Tool (iSThAT). The tool provides a framework for the rapid assessment of health and economic benefits. Three mitigation scenarios have been modelled to compare the effec...

The report investigates the impact of solid waste management to the population health in Accra, Ghana. The main goal of the study is to inform local air quality and climate change policies. The study investigated the framework of SWM in Accra, assessed the contribution of urban SWM activities to local air pollution and climate change by estimating the quantity of short-lived climate pollutants (SL...

This report presents the results of the environmental burden of disease (or health risk) assessment related to air pollution in 2021. The estimates include all-cause mortality and cause-specific mortality and morbidity health outcomes, with ten risk-outcome pairs considered for the cause-specific estimates. Cause-specific mortality and morbidity estimates are combined to allow assessing the overal...

The Air Quality Benefits Assessment Tool (AQBAT) is a computer application developed by Health Canada which is designed to estimate the human health impacts of changes in Canada’s ambient air quality. It is used to estimate the benefits (positive impacts) or damages (negative impacts) of proposed regulatory initiatives related to outdoor air quality as mandated by the Treasury Board Cabinet Direct...

The Urban Health Initiative (UHI) goes beyond improving access to health care and promoting healthy behaviours, and focuses on how to build cities that enable and encourage good health....

This fact sheet from the WHO's Urban Health Initiative (UHI) presents health effects of air pollution on the human body....

The Urban Health Initiative promotes tools and guidance to assess the health impacts of air pollution and the health benefits of sustainable development in energy, transportation, land-use and waste. These tools provide urban leaders and health policy-makers with estimates of the health impacts of air pollution and short-lived climate pollutants (e.g. black carbon and methane). The tools also supp...

Sustainable transport systems can protect and promote health, by reducing risks from vehicular air pollution, physical inactivity and traffic injuries, and by providing climate and environmental benefits for urban areas....