Tremendous figures giving Soria. The relationship between pollution produced by the models mobility and health, rarely sets (indeed, often invisible).
One more reason to promote sustainable mobility.
Minister of Health and Consumption, Bernat Soria, stressed today that if the cities of Bilbao, Madrid and Seville implement programs to combat air pollution, which represent a reduction of the speed vehicles, and issuing gases, decrease the respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, which would prevent over 3,700 deaths each year.
This not only has an impact on health, but also in the number of hospitalizations and its economic impact on low work.
Soria gave as an example the program to improve air quality in Barcelona, \u200b\u200band stressed that if the city managed to bring their level of contamination and therefore recommends the EU, would prevent some 1,200 deaths, 600 hospitalizations and more than 14,000 episodes of bronchitis or asthma per year. It would lead to reduced health costs between 1,000 and 2,300 million euros.
Investment in health policies related to the environment can have a profit of five to one, is an investment that benefits multiplied by five. Human health is suffering a greater extent and more importantly the consequences of environmental disasters.
Minister of Health has stressed that it is obvious that the environment has to do with health. Are no studies that indicate that over 24% of disease burden can be correlated with the environment. Soria
inaugurated yesterday by the Minister for Science and Innovation, Cristina Garmendia, and Director of Research at the European Commission, José Manuel Silva, a meeting of European experts who will analyze the strategic plans in the field of health research. Garmendia
has highlighted the importance of influencing behavioral change through education, to raise awareness on issues such as water or energy saving. Our responsibility
social science is to reconcile with society and I think we have advanced some steps in this direction, for science and technology are critical components currently on the political agenda to promote the socioeconomic development of the most disadvantaged societies.
The expert meeting will serve to prepare the second high level for the V Ministerial Conference of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Environment and Health to be held next year in Italy. According to WHO statistics, environmental health measures could save 18 million lives annually throughout Europe.
Source: El País
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