Tag: preventable health risk

Air Pollution Replaces Poor Diet As World’s Largest Preventable Health Risk

Mar 26, 2014

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mwkruse

in Demography, Environment, Health and Medicine, Poverty

Forbes: Air Pollution Replaces Poor Diet As World's Largest Preventable Health Risk Dirty air killed an alarming 7 million people – or, one of every eight human lives lost – in 2012, according to new estimates released today by the World Health Organization (WHO). The new data shows that air pollution has become the world’s…