Children, elderly worst hit by pollution: WHO

The Times of India , Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Correspondent : MalathyIyer
MUMBAI: Children and the elderly are the worst hit by environment-related diseases, said the World Health Organisation's Preventing Disease through Healthy Environments report released on Tuesday. The report said that one in 4 deaths across the world occurred due to environmental pollution at home or the workplace.

The report found that children under 5 and adults aged 50 to 75 years were most impacted. Yearly, the deaths of 1.7 million children under 5 and 4.9 million adults aged 50 to 75 could be prevented through better environmental management,'' said the WHO report. Totally, WHO estimates that 12.6 million people die every year due to environmental pollution.

Lower respiratory infections and diarrhoeal diseases mostly impact children under 5, while older people are most impacted by noncommunicable diseases,'' it added.

Regionally, the report found that low- and middle-income countries in the WHO South-East Asia and Western Pacific Regions had the largest environment-related disease burden in 2012, with a total of 7.3 million deaths, most attributable to indoor and outdoor air pollution. Of these, 3.8 million deaths occurred annually in the South-East Asia Region.

 
SOURCE : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Children-elderly-worst-hit-by-pollution-WHO/articleshow/51415991.cms
 


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