Session 2.1: How low does HAP (PM2.5) need to be to achieve health benefits? Recommendations of new WHO guidelines

Abstract

Presentation by Dr Nigel Bruce, Consultant Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health (WHO/PHE). Overview:

  • Why does this question matter?
  • Existing WHO air quality guidelines: A foundation for the new guidelines
  • Key questions for the new Guidelines
  • Evidence reviewed: Focus on 3 reviews most relevant to our question
  • Main recommendations
  • Implementation and evaluation plans

Citation

Bruce, N. Session 2.1: How low does HAP (PM2.5) need to be to achieve health benefits? Recommendations of new WHO guidelines. Presented at the DFID/Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves/WHO Clean Cooking Conference, London, UK, 1 May 2014. (2014) 35 pp.

Session 2.1: How low does HAP (PM2.5) need to be to achieve health benefits? Recommendations of new WHO guidelines

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Published 1 January 2014