Pollution and health: a progress update to the 2017 Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health

The Lancet Commission’s updated report presents an estimate of the effects of pollution on health, made on the basis of the data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2019, and also makes an assessment of trends since 2000. These data show that the situation has not improved, and that pollution remains a major global threat to health and prosperity, particularly in LMICs. Since 2000, the steady decline in the number of deaths from the ancient scourges of household air pollution, unsafe drinking water, and inadequate sanitation are offset by increasing deaths attributable to the more modern forms of pollution. These modern forms of pollution —e.g. ambient air pollution, lead pollution, and chemical pollution— require major increases in mitigation and prevention.

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