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Labour productivity loss and economic burden from PM2.5-related mortality in multiple countries
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Medicine · Public Health
Discovery of the day
A new study published in Nature Health has quantified the substantial labour productivity loss and economic burden attributable to premature deaths from PM2.5 air pollution across seven countries between 2000 and 2019. The researchers found that an estimated 5% of productivity-adjusted life-years (PALYs), representing US$21.5 billion, were lost due to air-pollution-related mortality. For a nurse and psychologist focused on chronic disease and prevention, this finding provides powerful economic evidence to support population-level interventions addressing environmental determinants of health and underscores the hidden costs of inaction in public health policy.
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