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....

Clean and sustainable household energy and appliances, for cooking, heating and lighting can improve health, increase productivity, reduce poverty and protect the environment while addressing air pollution....

Waste management options such as recycling, composting, incineration and landfill impact health and well-being in profound ways, particularly for people who work directly with waste or live and work around waste sites....

The Urban Health Initiative is an implementation framework which aims to reduce the deaths and diseases caused by air pollution and lack of clean energy access in cities. It aims to equip health and other sectors with the data, tools and capacity to demonstrate to the public and decision-makers the full range of benefits that can be achieved from creating healthy urban environments....

The article analyzes the impacts of air pollution on public and individual health in which many pollutants are major factors in disease in humans. This includes particulate matter, ground-level ozone,nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), dioxins, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)....

With support from the Clean Air Fund, Vital Strategies has partnered with city governments to assemble a set of case studies showcasing real-world examples of how engagement with public health organizations and practitioners can accelerate solutions that promote clean air, climate and health simultaneously. These case studies equip health decision-makers and public health practitioners with exampl...

This epidemiological repository is a compilation of quantitative information on the magnitude of mortality risks related to long-term exposure to ambient particulate matter, identified through a two-stage search strategy of epidemiological studies. Therefore, the aims of this repository are: • to provide decision-makers, policymakers, researchers and all interested parties in countries around the ...

This is Report 1 of the technical assistance that includes the results obtained in the estimation of the burden of disease attributable to air pollution, as well as the adaptation of an estimation methodology in the study areas. This product is the result of joint work with the environmental and health authorities of the city of Cali and the Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley....

This report links state-of-the-art models on vehicle emissions, air pollution, and epidemiological models to determine how, when, and where transportation emissions are impacting air quality and public health. It advances beyond examining the transportation sector as a whole, evaluating the health burden attributable to specific subsectors: on-road diesel vehicles, on-road non-diesel vehicles, shi...

This document presents recommendations for concentration–response functions for key pollutants to be included in cost–benefit analysis supporting the revision of the European Union’s air quality policy. It provides a response to a question posed by the European Commission in the framework of the WHO “Health risks of air pollution in Europe – HRAPIE” project. The essential background to this respon...