Pollution and health: a progress update

🤖 Plain-English Summary

The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world's largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death. Global action on all major modern pollutants is needed.

🔑 Key Findings

• We have now updated this estimate using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuriaes, and Risk Factors Study 2019.
• We find that pollution remains responsible for approximately 9 million deaths per year, corresponding to one in six deaths worldwide.
• Reductions have occurred in the number of deaths attributable to the types of pollution associated with extreme poverty.

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