Using the GBD results for progress on Air Quality Management in India, 2013.
Dr Kalpana Balakrishnan. Center for Advanced Research on Environmental Health, (ICMR, Govt. of India)
An excerpt from the presentation:
- The burden is not decreasing and the evidence is unequivocal
- The burden is seamless across rural –urban boundaries
- Density of intervention efforts would need to be substantively increased to achieve and demonstrate health benefits
- Range of health effects are broader and magnitudes bigger thanpreviously estimated
- Multitude of competing risk factors
