Preventing Disease Through Healthy Environments: Towards an Estimate of the Environmental Burden of Disease
By A. Prüss-Ustün, C. Corvalan. 2006
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Citations in the corpus
- State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals - 2012 (2012, background): “It has been estimated that as much as 24% of human diseases and disorders are at least in part due to environmental factors (Prüss-Üstün & Corvalán, 2006).”
- Preventing disease through healthy environments: a global assessment of the burden of disease from environmental risks (2016, result): “…protecting people’s health. ten years ago, the global burden of disease attributable to environmental factors was estimated at 24% (in dalys, 2002) (Prüss-ustün & corvalan, 2006) – a figure which agreed with earlier global studies, for example 23% (Who, 1997) and ranging between 25% and 33%…”
- Review of the literature on the links between biodiversity and climate change: impacts, adaptation and mitigation. (2009, background): “It has been reported that approximately one quarter of the global disease burden is due to modifiable environmental factors and that 42 per cent of incidences of malaria are associated with policies and practices related to land use, deforestation, and water resource management (Pruss-Ustun and Corv”
- Agricultural Research and Policy for Better Health and Nutrition In Developing Countries: A Food Systems Approach (2007, background): “Thus, in a recent study, Pruss-Ustun and Corvalan (2006) estimated that modifiable environmental factors, including physical, chemical, and biological hazards, account for 24 percent of the global health burden (measured in terms of “disability adjusted life years” (DALYs)), 23 percent of all…”
- The global burden of respiratory disease. (2014, background): “Respiratory cancers cause 1.5 million deaths annually, which account for over 15% of all cancer-related deaths (11).”