The World Health Organisation (WHO) released a report in 2005 called ‘Preventing Disease through Healthy Environments: Towards an Estimate of the Environmental Burden of Disease’.
This document confirmed what many of us have known for years, that it is environmental pollution that is the major instigator of ill health and death.
The summary covers:
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Out door pollution affects more respiratory deaths
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Flu emerges in polluted environments
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Failing to wash hands puts the public at risk
The main articles has some research solutions and a dash of history.