Clean Air, Smart Cities, Healthy Hearts: Action on Air Pollution for Cardiovascular Health
| Autor: | Mark R. Miller, Maria Consuelo Escamilla Nuñez, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Kelcey Armstrong-Walenczak, Karen Sliwa, Ta-Chen Su, Narantuya Davaakhuu, Michael Brauer, Jeremiah Mwangi, Michael Hadley, Daniel Kass, Ilonca Vaartjes, Rajesh Vedanthan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Invited Editorial
Epidemiology Cardiovascular health Health Status Air pollution air pollution cardiovascular disease CVD environmental health climate change policy medicine.disease_cause Patient advocacy cvd Risk Factors Environmental health Air Pollution Global policy Medicine Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system Humans Cities Community and Home Care Environmental risk factors for health business.industry Risk factor (computing) Expert group Action (philosophy) Cardiovascular Diseases RC666-701 Position (finance) Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270 Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Global Heart Global Heart, Vol 16, Iss 1 (2021) Global Heart; Vol 16, No 1 (2021); 61 |
| ISSN: | 2211-8179 2211-8160 |
| Popis: | More than twenty percent of all cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths are caused by air pollution — more than three million deaths every year — and these numbers will continue to rise unless the global community takes action. Nine out of ten people worldwide breathe polluted air, which disproportionately affects those living in low-resource settings. The World Heart Federation (WHF) is committed to reducing the impact of air pollution on people’s health and has made this a priority area of its global advocacy efforts. In pursuit of this goal, WHF has formed an Air Pollution Expert Group to inform action on air pollution for CVD health and recommend changes to public health policy. This policy paper lays out the health impacts of air pollution, examines its position on the global policy agenda, demonstrates its relevance to the cardiovascular community, and proposes actionable policy measures to mitigate this deadly risk factor to health. The paper considers the important roles to be played by the Members of WHF, including scientific societies and the physicians that constitute them, heart health foundations, and patient advocacy groups. The paper concludes with a detailed table of recommendations for the various sub-target groups at the global, national, local, and patient level. |
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