BMJ Paediatrics Open (Dec 2018)

Diesel, children and respiratory disease

  • Norrice M Liu,
  • Jonathan Grigg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2017-000210
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1

Abstract

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Air pollution generated in urban areas is a global public health burden since half of the world’s population live in either cities, megacities or periurban areas. Its direct effects include initiating and exacerbating disease, with indirect effects on health mediated via climate change putting the basic needs of water, air and food at risk.