Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality
Indoor Air Quality:
- Indoor air pollution is among the top five environmental health risks.
- According to various studies, household air pollution causes more deaths than outdoor with researchers even emphasizing that 40% of all the diseases burden can be attributed to household air pollution.
- In 2012, indoor air pollution was linked to 4.3 million deaths globally, compared with 3.7 million for outdoor air pollution.
- In another survey done the same year, it was found that indoor and outdoor air pollution claimed at least 40,000 UK lives a year with a total damaging cost of £20bn.
- In India, too, the death due to indoor ....
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