Outdoor air pollution and cancer: An overview of the current evidence and public health recommendations
University of Ottawa · Universitat Pompeu Fabra · +11 more institutions
Abstract
Outdoor air pollution is a major contributor to the burden of disease worldwide. Most of the global population resides in places where air pollution levels, because of emissions from industry, power generation, transportation, and domestic burning, considerably exceed the World Health Organization's health-based air-quality guidelines. Outdoor air pollution poses an urgent worldwide public health challenge because it is ubiquitous and has numerous serious adverse human health effects, including cancer. Currently, there is substantial evidence from studies of humans and experimental animals as well as mechanistic evidence to support a causal link between outdoor (ambient) air pollution, and especially…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 42.93
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 199
Authors
10- MCMichelle C. TurnerCorresponding
University of Ottawa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública
- ZJZorana Jovanovic Andersen
University of Copenhagen
- ABAndrea Baccarelli
Columbia University
- WRW. Ryan Diver
American Cancer Society
- SMSusan M. Gapstur
American Cancer Society
Topics & keywords
- Air pollution
- Environmental health
- Medicine
- Public health
- Air quality index
- Lung cancer
- Population health
- Population
- Good health and well-being