The Global Burden of Disease Due to Outdoor Air Pollution

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ID23315514
AutoresAaron J Cohen, Aaron Cohen (0000-0002-4610-9912, Health Effects Institute, autor de correspondencia), H Ross Anderson, Bart Ostro (California Environmental Protection Agency), Kiran Pandey (0000-0001-8658-2942, Global Environment Facility), Kiran Dev Pandey, Michał Krzyżanowski (0000-0003-4073-2831, Institute for Environment and Human Security), Nino Künzli (0000-0001-8360-080X, University of Southern California), Kersten Gutschmidt (Dr. Lisbeth Hurni Coaching & Consulting), Arden Pope (Brigham Young University), Isabelle Romieu (0000-0002-8552-5273, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública), Jonathan M Samet (0000-0001-5676-9175, Johns Hopkins University), Kirk R Smith (0000-0002-0439-1120, Berkeley Public Health Division), Kirk Smith (0000-0002-8735-7576)
Año2005
Volumen68
Número13-14
Páginas1301-1307
Fecha de publicación2005-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1528-7394 • E-ISSN: 1087-2620
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15287390590936166
PMID16024504
OpenAlexW2115251260
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas83
Referencias citadas2

As part of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Burden of Disease Comparative Risk Assessment, the burden of disease attributable to urban ambient air pollution was estimated in terms of deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). Air pollution is associated with a broad spectrum of acute and chronic health effects, the nature of which may vary with the pollutant constituents. Particulate air pollution is consistently and independently related to the most serious effects, including lung cancer and other cardiopulmonary mortality. The analyses on which this report is based estimate that ambient air pollution, in terms of fine particulate air pollution (PM(2.5)), causes about 3% of mortality from cardiopulmonary disease, about 5% of mortality from cancer of the trachea, bronchus, and lung, and about 1% of mortality from acute respiratory infections in children under 5 yr, worldwide. This amounts to about 0.8 million (1.2%) premature deaths and 6.4 million (0.5%) years of life lost (YLL). This burden occurs predominantly in developing countries; 65% in Asia alone. These estimates consider only the impact of air pollution on mortality (i.e., years of life lost) and not morbidity (i.e., years lived with disability), due to limitations in the epidemiologic database. If air pollution multiplies both incidence and mortality to the same extent (i.e., the same relative risk), then the DALYs for cardiopulmonary disease increase by 20% worldwide.

Air pollution · Burden of disease · Disease burden · Environmental health · Environmental protection · Incidence (geometry) · Life expectancy · Particulate pollution · Particulates · Population · Years of potential life lost · Air Quality and Health Impacts · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Environmental Science · Global Health Care Issues · Medicine · Pollution