3,200 deaths a year: 1 of many reasons air pollution in Australia demands urgent national action
- Written by: Deren Pillay, Researcher and Advanced Trainee in Public Health Medicine, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania
Australia is holding its collective breath ahead of a bushfire season that may bring a return of the smoke linked to 400 deaths and 4,500 hospitalisations and emergency department visits during the 2019–20 Black Summer fires.
Air pollution is the world’s single greatest environmental cause of preventable disease and premature death. In...
