{"id":15866,"date":"2018-01-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/01\/22\/of-11-million-pollution-related-deaths-75-happened-in-rural-india-says-massachusetts-study\/"},"modified":"2018-01-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T12:00:00","slug":"of-11-million-pollution-related-deaths-75-happened-in-rural-india-says-massachusetts-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/01\/22\/of-11-million-pollution-related-deaths-75-happened-in-rural-india-says-massachusetts-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Of 1.1 Million Pollution-Related Deaths, 75% Happened in Rural India, Says Massachusetts Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalheraldindia.com\/news\/of-11-million-pollution-related-deaths-75-happened-in-rural-india-says-massachusetts-study\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, January 19, 2018 (National Herald India): A new study has found that high pollution levels contributed to nearly 1.1 million deaths in 2015, or 10.6% of the total number of deaths in India, with &#8220;the burden falling disproportionately (75%) on rural areas&#8221;. The study raises the alarm that if no action is taken, &#8220;population exposures to PM2.5 are likely to increase by more than 40% by 2050.&#8221; Coming close on the heels of the alarm being raised around high pollution levels in Delhi, the study insists, &#8220;The urban areas had slightly lower contributions to attributable mortality from residential biomass combustion, open burning, and distributed diesel, and somewhat larger contributions from coal combustion and dust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Noting that the Indo-Gangetic plains were found to be particularly more polluted compared to the rest of India, the study, providing a further breakup, says, India experienced a 48% rise in pollution-related deaths compared to 1990, adding, of the 1.09 million deaths in India in 2015, as many as 644,000 were men and 447,000 women. The study says, &#8220;Residential biomass burning is the largest individual contributor to the burden of disease in India&#8221;, with &#8220;residential biomass burning responsible for 267,700 deaths&#8221;, or 25% of the total, the study says, &#8220;These burden estimates do not include the considerable additional burden from indoor exposure to biomass burning.&#8221; The study &#8212; &#8220;Burden of Disease Attributable to Major Air Pollution Sources in India&#8221;, was published by the Health Effects Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, US, and carried out by scholars of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and the University of Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source INDIA, January 19, 2018 (National Herald India): A new study has found that high pollution levels contributed to nearly,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}