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标题：Air pollution and non-communicable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa
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作者：Edith B Milanzi ; Owen Nkoka ; Victor Kanje 等
期刊名称：Scientific African
印刷版ISSN：2468-2276
出版年度：2021
卷号：11
页码：1-4
DOI：10.1016/j.sciaf.2021.e00702
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that non-communicable diseases (NCDs) were responsible for 40 million of the world’s 56 million deaths, where 15 million of these were premature deaths and over 80% had occurred in low- and middle-income countries, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) [1] . The increasing levels of urbanization with poor urban planning in SSA have contributed to the rising levels of air pollution and along with this, increased adverse health effects especially NCDs. It is estimated that outdoor air pollution and household air pollution (HAP) together caused more than 6 million deaths from cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases and lung cancer in 2012 [2] and HAP was the highest contributor to NCD deaths in SSA in 2016 [3] . The epidemiological transition from predominantly infectious diseases to NCDs is already well underway in SSA where in 2004, more than half of all deaths in SSA were caused by infectious conditions, but by 2030, NCDs will have caused 46% [4] .
关键词：KeywordsAir pollutionNon-communicable diseasesSub-Saharan Africa