Air pollution costs an average of €1,276 per year to a person living in Europe’s cities, with major health inequalities between and within European countries, according to the largest study of its kind released by theEuropean Public Health Alliance (EPHA) on 21 October.
The study looked at 432 cities across the EU, the UK, Norway and Switzerland. It quantifies the monetary value of premature deaths, medical treatment, lost work days and other health costs caused by particulate matter...