Noncommunicable diseases and air pollution (2019)
- Author:
- The World Health Organisation
- Publisher:
- World Health Organization
- Publication Date:
- 27 August 2020
- Tags:
- Africa, Health and Medicine, International Organizations and Africa
Air pollution is the second leading cause of deaths from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), after tobacco-smoking. In 2018, the third United Nations high-level meeting on NCDs recognized household and outdoor air pollution as a risk factor for NCDs, alongside unhealthy diets, tobacco-smoking, harmful use of alcohol and physical inactivity.
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