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Air Pollution

Air pollution is a major environmental risk to health.

Better air quality reduces illness and death from stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, and respiratory diseases, such as asthma. Links to diabetes and impaired infant growth are increasingly recognised. Policies to support reducing the combustion of fossil fuels through cleaner transport and power generation, are needed to reduce key sources of outdoor air pollution. Our Air Pollution Special Interest Group(SIG) members seek to support policies and programs to improve the health of all Australians through better protection of clean air.

 

Air Pollution Resources

 

REPORT ON AIR POLLUTION

Lethal power: how coal is killing people in Australia” delivers a nation-wide estimate of the health effects from air pollution

 

FACTSHEETS ON AIR POLLUTION   

Bushfires and Health: our fire-prone continent is at particular risk from the impacts of climate change, and we are experiencing more extreme heat events, an increase in severe fire danger days and a longer fire season. (Dec 2017)