The document "Air Pollution and Child Health: Prescribing Clean Air" by the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights the severe impact of air pollution on children's health. It emphasizes that both ambient and household air pollution contribute significantly to childhood illnesses and mortality, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. The report calls for urgent action from healthcare ...

The systematic evaluation of the results of time-series studies of air pollution is challenged by differences in model specification and publication bias. Authors' data show independent associations between short-term exposure to PM10 and PM2.5 and daily all-cause, cardiovascular, and respiratory mortality in more than 600 cities across the globe. These data reinforce the evidence of a link betwee...

Previous studies suggest an association between short-term exposure to carbon monoxide and myocardial infarction. Authors performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess current evidence on this association to support the update of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Air Quality Guidelines....

This publication represents the views and expert opinions of an IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, which met in Lyon, 8–15 October 2013....

Recent studies have reported that air pollution exposure may have neurotoxic properties. The objective of this article is to examine longitudinal associations between prenatal particles less than 2.5 μm in diameter (PM2.5) exposure and neurodevelopment during the first two years of children's life....

WHO has published several volumes of Global Air Quality Guidelines to provide guidance on the health risks associated with exposure to outdoor air pollution. As new scientific evidence is generated, air quality guidelines need to be periodically revised and, where necessary, updated. The aims of the study were 1) to summarise the available evidence on the effect of long-term exposure to ozone (O3)...

Air pollution is a complex mixture of gaseous and particulate components, each of which has detrimental effects on human health. While the composition of air pollution varies greatly depending on the source, studies from across the world have consistently shown that air pollution is an important modifiable risk factor for significantly increased morbidity and mortality. Moreover, clinical studies ...

Clean Air Asia, India, sponsored a study to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur to prepare a knowledge product for MSMEs that will showcase the potential solutions that MSMEs could adopt. The solutions would also include a focus on marginalised/ vulnerable communities and policy recommendations for MSMEs. This report specifically examined the processes in different industries, housekee...

This chapter presents a methodology that will enable the user, having knowledge of the source being controlled, to produce study-level estimates of the costs incurred by regulated entities for a control system applied to that source. The methodology, which applies to each of the control systems included in this Manual, is general enough to be used with other “add-on” systems as well. Further, the ...

The Carbon Reduction Benefits on Health (CaRBonH) calculation tool allows quantification of the physical and economic consequences for human health achieved through improvements in country-level air quality from domestic carbon reductions, specifically policy mitigation actions and measures as reported in the NDCs submitted by the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in support of the objective...