Reviewing the evidence on and calculating the cost of the health impacts of air pollution

This chapter reviews the extensive new epidemiological evidence that has become available since the WHO’s 2010 Global Burden of Disease study. It tabulates health impacts from ambient particulate matter and ambient ozone pollution – including deaths, years of life lost (YLLs), and disability adjusted life years lost (DALYs) – for all OECD countries plus China and India. This chapter also provides a new calculation of the economic cost of deaths from ambient air pollution for all OECD countries plus China and India, along with an additional indicative estimate for the cost of morbidities.