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Public Health Organization, Central Pollution Control Board, World Bank Development Research Group

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SUBJECT: PHE5ENV ASSIGNMENT 3 LITERATURE REVIEW
DATE: 6th March, 2015

NAME: SARAS SONI
STUDENT ID: 18007333
MPH 2ND SEMESTER
Email ID: 18007333@students.latrobe.edu.au

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PubMed, Published Journals, Government Reports and Publications, World Health Organization, Central Pollution Control Board, World Bank Development Research Group, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Government Of India Ministry Of Environment & Forests, Development Centre Working Papers, The Indian Journal of Chest Diseases & Allied Sciences, PNAS, Independent organizations.

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What are the primary air pollution problems in your community (select and describe a setting that you are most familiar with)? What are the major sources? Are they related to other environmental issues? How does the air pollution impact on public health?

DELHI AIR POLLUTION: BREATHE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!

Public health refers to the science and art of preventing disease, promoting health, and prolonging life among the population as a whole. Its activities aim to provide conditions in which people can be healthy and focus on entire populations, not on individual patients or diseases (1). Our health is very much dependent on external environment in which we live, the air we breathe, water we drink or the food we eat and it should be free of contamination and pollution in order to live a healthy life. One of the biggest threats to the health of people in today’s world is

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