Session 5: Outdoor and indoor pollution and the built environment

Health and Environment · Fri 6 Nov 2026 · 2h

Teaching›Health and Environment›Course material 2026/27›Session 5

Slides

The slides will be linked here before the session. They are in the student area, so you will be asked for the module password 🔒.

Readings

Read the core readings before the session. The further readings are optional.

Core

Landrigan PJ, Fuller R, Acosta NJR, et al. (2018). The Lancet Commission on pollution and health. The Lancet, 391(10119), 462–512.

Chief Medical Officer (2022). Chief Medical Officer’s Annual Report 2022: Air Pollution. London: Department of Health and Social Care.

Further

Fuller R, Landrigan PJ, Balakrishnan K, et al. (2022). Pollution and health: a progress update. The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(6), e535–e547.

Royal College of Physicians (2016). Every breath we take: the lifelong impact of air pollution. Report of a working party. London: RCP.

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Royal College of Physicians (2020). The inside story: Health effects of indoor air quality on children and young people. London: RCPCH.

Giles-Corti B, Vernez-Moudon A, Reis R, et al. (2016). City planning and population health: a global challenge. The Lancet, 388(10062), 2912–2924.

GBD 2021 Risk Factors Collaborators (2024). Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. The Lancet, 403(10440), 2162–2203.