Environmental risks and non-communicable diseases

Annette Prüss-Ustün; Emilie van Deventer; Pierpaolo Mudu; Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum; Carolyn Vickers; Ivan Ivanov; Francesco Forastiere; Sophie Gumy; Carlos Dora; Heather Adair-Rohani; Maria Neira

doi:10.1136/bmj.l265

Environmental risks and non-communicable diseases

BMJ. 2019 Jan 28:364:l265. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l265.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland pruessa@who.int.
² Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ European Centre for Environment and Health, World Health Organization, Bonn, Germany.
⁴ Global Environmental Health Justice and Governance, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Abstract

Annette Prüss-Ustün and colleagues consider the role of air pollution and other environmental risks in non-communicable diseases and actions to reduce them

MeSH terms

Environment*
Humans
Noncommunicable Diseases / epidemiology*
Risk Factors

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International