Air pollution and the noncommunicable disease prevention agenda: opportunities for public health and environmental science
Air pollution is a major environmental risk factor and contributor to chronic, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). However, most public health approaches to NCD prevention focus on behavioural and biomedical risk factors, rather than environmental risk factors such as air pollution. This article discus...
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| author | Eloise Howse Melanie Crane Ivan Hanigan Lucy Gunn Paul Crosland Ding Ding Martin Hensher Lucie Rychetnik |
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| description | Air pollution is a major environmental risk factor and contributor to chronic, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). However, most public health approaches to NCD prevention focus on behavioural and biomedical risk factors, rather than environmental risk factors such as air pollution. This article discusses the implications of such a focus. It then outlines the opportunities for those in public health and environmental science to work together across three key areas to address air pollution, NCDs and climate change: (a) acknowledging the shared drivers, including corporate determinants; (b) taking a ‘co-benefits’ approach to NCD prevention; and (c) expanding prevention research and evaluation methods through investing in systems thinking and intersectoral, cross-disciplinary collaborations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-12e9795c673d4e399a422ef31e3bfe5d2023-08-09T14:55:47ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262021-01-0116606500210.1088/1748-9326/abfba0Air pollution and the noncommunicable disease prevention agenda: opportunities for public health and environmental scienceEloise Howse0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2879-4573Melanie Crane1Ivan Hanigan2Lucy Gunn3Paul Crosland4Ding Ding5Martin Hensher6Lucie Rychetnik7The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, Sax Institute , Sydney, Australia; The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Public Health, Prevention Research Collaboration , Sydney, AustraliaThe Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, Sax Institute , Sydney, Australia; The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Public Health, Prevention Research Collaboration , Sydney, AustraliaThe University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Public Health, University Centre for Rural Health , Sydney, AustraliaThe Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, Sax Institute , Sydney, Australia; RMIT University, Centre for Urban Research , Melbourne, AustraliaThe Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, Sax Institute , Sydney, Australia; Deakin University, Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin Health Economics , Melbourne, AustraliaThe University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Public Health, Prevention Research Collaboration , Sydney, AustraliaDeakin University, Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin Health Economics , Melbourne, AustraliaThe Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, Sax Institute , Sydney, Australia; The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Public Health , Sydney, AustraliaAir pollution is a major environmental risk factor and contributor to chronic, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). However, most public health approaches to NCD prevention focus on behavioural and biomedical risk factors, rather than environmental risk factors such as air pollution. This article discusses the implications of such a focus. It then outlines the opportunities for those in public health and environmental science to work together across three key areas to address air pollution, NCDs and climate change: (a) acknowledging the shared drivers, including corporate determinants; (b) taking a ‘co-benefits’ approach to NCD prevention; and (c) expanding prevention research and evaluation methods through investing in systems thinking and intersectoral, cross-disciplinary collaborations.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abfba0air pollutionnoncommunicable diseasepreventionpublic healthco-benefits |
| spellingShingle | Eloise Howse Melanie Crane Ivan Hanigan Lucy Gunn Paul Crosland Ding Ding Martin Hensher Lucie Rychetnik Air pollution and the noncommunicable disease prevention agenda: opportunities for public health and environmental science Environmental Research Letters air pollution noncommunicable disease prevention public health co-benefits |
| title | Air pollution and the noncommunicable disease prevention agenda: opportunities for public health and environmental science |
| title_full | Air pollution and the noncommunicable disease prevention agenda: opportunities for public health and environmental science |
| title_fullStr | Air pollution and the noncommunicable disease prevention agenda: opportunities for public health and environmental science |
| title_full_unstemmed | Air pollution and the noncommunicable disease prevention agenda: opportunities for public health and environmental science |
| title_short | Air pollution and the noncommunicable disease prevention agenda: opportunities for public health and environmental science |
| title_sort | air pollution and the noncommunicable disease prevention agenda opportunities for public health and environmental science |
| topic | air pollution noncommunicable disease prevention public health co-benefits |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abfba0 |
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