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)....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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...

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 (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....

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...

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...