Drivers and Health Impacts of Ambient Air Pollution in Slovakia

This report, created with the support of the Structural Reform Support Program of the European Commission (EC), provides an estimate of the health impacts of current concentrations of air pollutants in the Republic of Slovakia across its 72 distric...

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Main Author: World Bank
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Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/324621617261430916/Drivers-and-Health-Impacts-of-Ambient-Air-Pollution-in-Slovakia
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spelling okr-10986-353762021-06-14T09:56:09Z Drivers and Health Impacts of Ambient Air Pollution in Slovakia World Bank AIR POLLUTION PARTICULATE MATTER EMISSIONS HEALTH IMPACT This report, created with the support of the Structural Reform Support Program of the European Commission (EC), provides an estimate of the health impacts of current concentrations of air pollutants in the Republic of Slovakia across its 72 districts (the two biggest cities are counted as one each) and evaluates the benefits of measures to reduce concentrations of pollutants relative to the costs of such measures. At the same time, a toolkit is prepared so that similar analyses can be conducted in the future. The study is motivated by the need to better understand the extent of the health consequences of the levels of ambient air pollution in Slovakia (which is among the highest in Europe) and to evaluate different actions to improve air quality in terms of their benefits relative to their costs. In this way policy actions to address air pollution can be more cost effective. 2021-04-05T19:34:10Z 2021-04-05T19:34:10Z 2021-02 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/324621617261430916/Drivers-and-Health-Impacts-of-Ambient-Air-Pollution-in-Slovakia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35376 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Environmental Study Europe and Central Asia Slovak Republic
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topic AIR POLLUTION
PARTICULATE MATTER
EMISSIONS
HEALTH IMPACT
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PARTICULATE MATTER
EMISSIONS
HEALTH IMPACT
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Drivers and Health Impacts of Ambient Air Pollution in Slovakia
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Slovak Republic
description This report, created with the support of the Structural Reform Support Program of the European Commission (EC), provides an estimate of the health impacts of current concentrations of air pollutants in the Republic of Slovakia across its 72 districts (the two biggest cities are counted as one each) and evaluates the benefits of measures to reduce concentrations of pollutants relative to the costs of such measures. At the same time, a toolkit is prepared so that similar analyses can be conducted in the future. The study is motivated by the need to better understand the extent of the health consequences of the levels of ambient air pollution in Slovakia (which is among the highest in Europe) and to evaluate different actions to improve air quality in terms of their benefits relative to their costs. In this way policy actions to address air pollution can be more cost effective.
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title Drivers and Health Impacts of Ambient Air Pollution in Slovakia
title_short Drivers and Health Impacts of Ambient Air Pollution in Slovakia
title_full Drivers and Health Impacts of Ambient Air Pollution in Slovakia
title_fullStr Drivers and Health Impacts of Ambient Air Pollution in Slovakia
title_full_unstemmed Drivers and Health Impacts of Ambient Air Pollution in Slovakia
title_sort drivers and health impacts of ambient air pollution in slovakia
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/324621617261430916/Drivers-and-Health-Impacts-of-Ambient-Air-Pollution-in-Slovakia
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