Health risks from air pollution in 2010

Based on the average concentration of the suspended PM 10 fraction found in 2010 in the urban environment, it can be roughly estimated that due to that air pollutant overall mortality increased by 2.9 % in the Czech Republic. The theoretical increase of cancer risk due to pollutant exposure from the outdoor air have not been changed in principle for several last years; it is in the range of 10 -7 to 10 -4 for the different carcinogens (one incremental cancer case per 10 million to 10 thousand of the population). The greatest contribution is from exposure to carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: in the most burdened industrial urban areas the values attained represent an incremental lifelong cancer risk by almost one case per 1,000 of the population.

Whole Article 17. October 2011 |