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... Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Ostro, Bart. Outdoor air pollution : assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels / Bart Ostro. (Environmental burden of disease ... Citation Ostro B. Outdoor air pollution: Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels. Geneva, World H...

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... Organization. WHO (2004b). Evaluation of the costs and benefits of water and sanitation improvements at the global level. Geneva, World Health Organization. WHO (2005a). Water-related diseases: ... factors, and in terms of the categories of diseases and health conditions affected. The analysis makes use of the results from the CRA, complemented by extensive lit...

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... burden of disease and mortality associated with malnutrition 3.1 Summary of the method To obtain an estimate of the burden of disease associated with malnutrition, in terms of deaths and morbidity, ... permissions@who.int). The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion...

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... statistical uncertainty of the base-case estimates was quantified by estimating the joint uncertainty in the estimates of annual mean concentration and the estimates of the relative risks. The sensitivity of the base-case ... disease, worldwide and for each of 14 world regions. The burden of disease attribut- able to urban outdoor air pollution was es...

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... scarcity. The 3. Working Group on Biofuels focuses on the specific topic of biofuels, and their specific implications on land use and other pressures, and their contribution to the solution of the ... analysing the causes, we look at the immediate emitters and resource extractors, and the demand for the materials and products that they generate. This procedu...

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... at the Assembly in 2007, requested the WHO Director-General to “… strengthen the information and evidence culture of the Organization and to ensure the use of accurate and timely health statistics ... is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the African Region and in the low- and middle-income countries of the Region of the Americas. In the South-...

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... in England and Wales (Census 2001); ** in England and Wales THE BURDEN OF DISEASE ATTRIBUTABLE TO ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION Professor Ian Mathews and Dr Sharon Parry Department of Epidemiology, ... 1999). The burden of disease attributable to environmental pollution 23 9.4 Burden of disease The World Health Organisation has assessed the di...

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... level: 1. The downwind concentration at any location is directly proportional to the mass emission rate of the source. 2. The more turbulent the atmosphere, the more rapid the spread of the plume in the direction ... area and the measured wind speed. The CARB study indicated that outdoor SHS concentrations are detectable and sometimes comparable to indoor con...

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... global and regional burden of disease. Lancet 2002; 360: 1347-1360. 34. Desai MA, Mehta S, Smith KR. Indoor Smoke from Solid Fuels: Assessing the Environmental Burden of Disease at National and Local ... Local Levels. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2004. (WHO Environmental Burden of Disease Series, No. 4). 35. World Health Organization. Internatio...

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... PM 2.5 air quality in downwind states and helps them attain and maintain the 24-hour PM 2.5 air quality standards established in 2006 and the 1997 annual PM 2.5 standards.  Twenty states ... to 26. The table at the end of this fact sheet identifies the states covered by the final rule and the emissions they will need to control, including the six sta...

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