The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

Prof Philip J Landrigan, MD Richard Fuller, BE Nereus J R Acosta, PhD Olusoji Adeyi, DrPH Robert Arnold, PhD Prof Niladri (Nil) Basu, PhD Abdoulaye Bibi Baldé, MS Roberto Bertollini, MD Stephan Bose-O'Reilly, MD Jo Ivey Boufford, MD Patrick N Breysse, Ph

The Lancet

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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