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Dr. hab. Michal Krzyzanowski Regional Adviser, Air Quality and Health

Ambient air pollution and waste incineration in Poland – Intereg 3 Programme National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland, 11 May 2006. Ambient air pollution in Europe: how it harms health. Dr. hab. Michal Krzyzanowski Regional Adviser, Air Quality and Health WHO Regional Office for Europe.

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Dr. hab. Michal Krzyzanowski Regional Adviser, Air Quality and Health

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  1. Ambient air pollution and waste incineration in Poland – Intereg 3 ProgrammeNational Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland, 11 May 2006 Ambient air pollution in Europe:how it harms health Dr. hab. Michal Krzyzanowski Regional Adviser, Air Quality and Health WHO Regional Office for Europe Zanieczyszczenie powietrza:jak szkodzi ono zdrowiu?

  2. «Systematic Review of health aspects of air quality in Europe», 2002/4 WHO programme supporting development of EC Clean Air for Europe (CAFE) strategy

  3. WHO assessment of health risk of long-range transboundary air pollution WHO collaborates with UN Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution http://www.euro.who.int/air

  4. Anthropogenic contribution to PM2.5 EMEP Eulerian model MSC-W & IIASA 2000 2020 Grid-average concentrations, annual mean [µg/m3] from known anthropogenic sources excluding sec. org. aerosols Average of calculations for 1997, 1999, 2000 & 2003 meteorologies Source: MSC-W & CIAM

  5. Trends in PM10 concentration: EU, 1997-2002 Source: AIRBASE

  6. Sector contributors to PM2.5 in EU15, 2000 Source: EMEP 2005

  7. Sector contributors to PM10 in Poland, 2000-2003 Source: IOS 2005

  8. Risk for all-cause mortality and air pollution - WHO meta-analysis of short term studies Source: WHO 2004

  9. Long term exposure to PM and risk of mortality in ACS cohort (ca. 0.5 million people followed for 16 years) Source: Pope et al, JAMA 2002

  10. Long term exposure to PM and risk of CVD mortality(ACS cohort, ca. 0.5 million people followed for 16 years) Source: Pope et al, JAMA 2002

  11. Modelled PM2.5 concentrations in the Los Angeles Basin (Jerrett, Epidemiology Nov. 2005)

  12. Risk of mortality due to long term PM2.5 exposure (Jerett, Epidemiology 2005) Adjusted RR ~ 1.11 - 1.17 over 10 µg/m3 PM2.5 contrast for all cause mortality (two -three times as large as the inter-urban effect published by Pope in 2002) Lung cancer and heart disease RR range from 1.25 -1.60

  13. Rate Ratios for total mortality and PM2.5 in extended Harvard 6-cities Study (Laden et al, 2006) Period 1: 1974-89; Period 2: 1990-98

  14. Long term air pollution exposure and acceleration of atherosclerosis and vascular inflammation in an animal model (Sun et al, JAMA Dec 2005)

  15. Loss of life expectancy due to PM2.5 from anthropogenic sources 2000 2020 Loss of Life expectancy in months Source:EMEP & IIASA

  16. Loss of life expectancydue to PM2.5 from anthropogenic sources Poland Loss of Life expectancy in months Source:EMEP & IIASA

  17. Estimates of health impacts of anthropogenic PM in EU Source:CAFE 2005

  18. WHO AQG: Global update 2005: Summary of updated AQG values AQG levels recommended to be achieved everywhere in order to significantly reduce the adverse health effects of pollution http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E87950.pdf

  19. Ambient air pollution and waste incineration in Poland – Intereg 3 ProgrammeNational Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland, 11 May 2006 Dziękuję za uwagę http://www.euro.who.int/air

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