Air Pollution

We Need to Go Beyond Conventional Measures


The WHO report, titled ‘Air Pollution and Child Health: Prescribing Clean Air’, released recently, said air pollution was responsible for the deaths of over one lakh children under age 5 in India in 2016, and over 7,000 children between ages 5 and 14. In both age groups, the death rate was much higher among girls than among boys. Under age 5, air pollution accounted for the death of nearly 55,000 girls (death rate 96.6 per lakh) and nearly 47,000 boys (74.3 per lakh). In the age group 5-14, the children ....

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