Climate change policies reduce air pollution and increase physical activity: Benefits, costs, inequalities, and indoor exposures.

The burden of diseases attributable to air pollution is comparable to those of global health risks such as unhealthy diets and tobacco smoking, with many air pollution sources also emitting climate heating gases. In this UK study we estimated the co-benefits of Net Zero (NZ) climate policy on the health benefits of air pollution reduction, increased active travel, outdoor exposure inequalities and indoor air pollution changes. The study focused on two of the largest UK sources, road transport and building heating, with comparisons made between NZ and UK existing policy, referred to as Business as Usual (BAU).

Can the UK meet the World Health Organization PM interim target of 10 μg m by 2030?

The recent United Kingdom (UK) Environment Act consultation had the intention of setting two targets for PM (particles with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 μm), one related to meeting an annual average concentration and the second to reducing population exposure. As part of the consultation, predictions of PM concentrations in 2030 were made by combining European Union (EU) and UK government's emissions forecasts, with the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) Net Zero vehicle forecasts, and in London with the addition of local policies based on the London Environment Strategy (LES).

Associations between air pollution and mental health service use in dementia: a retrospective cohort study.

Background: Little is known about the role of air pollution in how people with dementia use mental health services.

Objective: We examined longitudinal associations between air pollution exposure and mental health service use in people with dementia.

Methods: In 5024 people aged 65 years or older with dementia in South London, high resolution estimates of nitrogen dioxide (NO) and particulate matter (PM and PM) levels in ambient air were linked to residential addresses.

Associations between air pollutants and blood pressure in an ethnically diverse cohort of adolescents in London, England.

Longitudinal evidence on the association between air pollution and blood pressure (BP) in adolescence is scarce. We explored this association in an ethnically diverse cohort of schoolchildren. Sex-stratified, linear random-effects modelling was used to examine how modelled residential exposure to annual average nitrogen dioxide (NO2), particulate matter (PM2.