Published October 19, 2017 | Version v1
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The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

Creators

  • 1. Arnhold Institute for Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: philip.landrigan@mssm.edu.
  • 2. Pure Earth, New York, NY, USA.
  • 3. Office of the President, Manila, Philippines.
  • 4. Department of Health, Nutrition, and Population Global Practice, The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
  • 5. Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
  • 6. Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
  • 7. Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Dakar, Senegal.
  • 8. Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks of the European Commission, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; Office of the Minister of Health, Ministry of Public Health, Doha, Qatar.
  • 9. Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital of LMU Munich, Munich, Germany; Department of Public Health, Health Services Research and Health Technology Assessment, University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tirol, Austria.
  • 10. New YorkAcademy of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
  • 11. Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  • 12. Department of Biology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
  • 13. Chulabhorn Research Institute, Bangkok, Thailand.
  • 14. Ministry of the Health and Social Affairs, Dakar, Senegal.
  • 15. Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, USA.
  • 16. Department of Biological, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
  • 17. Mount Sinai Heart, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
  • 18. Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
  • 19. Department of Social and Environmental Health Research and Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
  • 20. Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • 21. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
  • 22. Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, USA.
  • 23. Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
  • 24. Centennial Group, Washington, DC, USA; The Resources Center, Lalitpur, Nepal.
  • 25. Consortium of Universities for Global Health, Washington, DC, USA.
  • 26. Office of the US Executive Director, The World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
  • 27. Faculty of Common Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
  • 28. Institute for Health Metrics, Seattle, WA, USA.
  • 29. Ministry of Environment, Ecology and Forests, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
  • 30. Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
  • 31. UN International Resource Panel, Paris, France; SYSTEMIQ, London, UK.
  • 32. Department of Environmental Medicine and Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Health Investment & Financing Corporation, New York, NY, USA.
  • 33. Parliament of India, New Delhi, India.
  • 34. Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • 35. Mexico City, Mexico.
  • 36. Department of Biological Engineering and Department of Biology, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • 37. Children's Health and Environment Program, Child Health Research Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
  • 38. Environmental Health Sciences Division, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
  • 39. Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • 40. Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
  • 41. Division of Extramural Research and Training, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
  • 42. Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
  • 43. School of Social Work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
  • 44. United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Vienna, Austria.
  • 45. School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.

Description

Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world today. Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015—16% of all deaths worldwide—three times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence. In the most severely affected countries, pollution-related disease is responsible for more than one death in four.

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Funding

HEALS – Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys 603946
European Commission