ABOUT THE STUDY:
REPORT (India) | Strengthening Pollution Control Boards to achieve the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) in India
Air Pollution
Air Pollution and its impacts on human health: A post pandemic perspective
Masroor Azam, Centre for Chronic Disease Control India, explores how the different types of gaseous and particulate emissions affect human health.
New film: First, do no harm
Health Care Without Harm partnered with The Skoll Foundation and Freethink to produce a video featuring impassioned experts from around the world discussing the health impacts of climate change.
Study finds uneven levels of awareness among doctors about air pollution and health
Health Care Without Harm’s partner in India, the Centre for Chronic Disease Control, has published findings from a study titled "Understanding knowledge, attitude and practice of health practitioners towards health effects of air pollution in India."
International health group calls for ban on coal, urges action by governments and institutions
Calling coal a “lethal product,” the World Federation of Public Health Associations issued a Call to Ban Coal for Electricity Production.
HEALTHY ENERGY INITIATIVE SE Asia Webinar | Air Quality and Viruses
The deadly link between COVID-19 and air pollution
People living in high-pollution cities are more likely to have compromised respiratory, cardiac and other systems – and are therefore more vulnerable to COVID-19’s impacts.
IN THE NEWS - HCWH PARTNER IN INDIA | 12% population in polluted Korba industrial area highly vulnerable to COVID-19: A Study
Health Care Without Harm’s India partners take innovative approach to COVID-19 and gain global attention
In addition to developing materials for training medical professionals on public health impacts of air pollution under the Climate and Health Air Monitoring Project (CHAMP), the team at PGI Chandigarh and PU have also been developing ideas that would reach the message of air pollution and health to the masses. The team led by Dr. Ravindra Khaiwal (School of Public Health, PGI) and Dr. Suman Mor (Department of Environmental Studies, PU) zeroed in on children between the age groups of 6-14 years based on discussions with their children aged 8 and 14 and the CHAMP team members.
Mobilizing hospitals to monitor air pollution and communicate the health impacts: The Chennai pilot
In 2017 one of Health Care Without Harm’s partner organizations in India initiated an innovative pilot to work with a local hospital to install low-cost air pollution monitors and engage its leaders and staff in the public discourse on air pollution.
