Asya Dimitrova

TL;DR: Specific actions to promote health through sustainable urban development that leaves no one behind are identified, including: integrated planning; evidence-informed policy-making; and monitoring the implementation of policies.

TL;DR: The strength of the evidence for ambient temperature as a risk factor for all-cause mortality was judged as limited and for heat wave episodes as inadequate, and a U-shaped pattern was shown, with increasing mortality for both high and low temperatures.

TL;DR: Ambient fixed-site temperature is only a moderately useful proxy of personal air temperature in the context of peri-urban India, and people living in houses at lower altitude, with lower ceiling height and asbestos roofing sheets might be more vulnerable to heat.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used comparative risk assessment methods to quantify the ischemic heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and lower respiratory infection-related morbidity and mortality attributable to personal fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure due to kerosene-based lighting for residents of East Africa in 2015.

TL;DR: In this article, a multidimensional population projection was linked with emission projections from an integrated assessment model to quantify the localised (i.e. state-level) health benefits from reduced ambient fine particulate matter in India under global climate change mitigation scenarios in line with the Paris Agreement targets and national scenarios for maximum feasible air quality control.