Burden of Diseases due to Air Pollution in Urban India

Amrita Ghatak, Debasish Nandy and Suddhasil Siddhanta

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Abstract: Air pollution causes some of the most serious long-term impacts on human health. Unlike other health problems, the diseases caused by air-pollution are likely to affect everyone exposed to polluted air. This paper makes an attempt to ascertain the economic burden of diseases related to air-pollution in urban areas. [GIDR Working Paper No.34].

Keywords: Air-pollution; Sustainability; Health; Economic burden; Urban; economic burden of diseases; polluted air; human; income loss; disorders; NSS; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-11
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