Global and regional trends in particulate air pollution and attributable health burden over the past 50 years

Long-term exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM _2.5 , mass of particles with an aerodynamic dry diameter of < 2.5 μm) is a major risk factor to the global burden of disease. Previous studies have focussed on present day or future health burdens attributed to ambient PM _2.5 . Few studies ha...

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Published in:	Environmental Research Letters
Main Authors:	E W Butt, S T Turnock, R Rigby, C L Reddington, M Yoshioka, J S Johnson, L A Regayre, K J Pringle, G W Mann, D V Spracklen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2017-01-01
Subjects:	PM2.5 emissions historical health burden attributable deaths
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa87be