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What We Breathe Impacts Our Health: Improving Understanding of the Link between Air Pollution and Health

Abstract: Air pollution contributes to the premature deaths of millions of people each year around the world, and air quality problems are growing in many developing nations. While past policy efforts have succeeded in reducing particulate matter and trace gases in North America and Europe, adverse health effects are found at even these lower levels of air pollution. Future policy actions will benefit from improved understanding of the interactions and health effects of different chemical species and source categories. Achieving this new understanding requires air pollution scientists and engineers to work increasingly closely with health scientists.

Authors: Jason West Aaron Cohen Frank Dentener Bert Brunekreef Tong Zhu Ben Armstrong Michelle Bell Michael Brauer Gregory Carmichael Dan Costa Douglas Dockery Michael Kleeman Michal Krzyzanowski Nino Künzli Catherine Liousse Shih-Chun Candice Lung Randall Martin Ulrich Poschl Arden Pope James Roberts Armistead Russell Christine Wiedinmyer