Dr. Keren Agay-Shay, an environmental epidemiologist who heads the Health and Environment Laboratory at Bar-Ilan’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, and her colleagues, used medical records, information from the Central Bureau of Statistics, and air pollution data to calculate the extent to which air pollution caused by emissions from factories and transportation increases mortality and morbidity.
Calculations of the number of attributable cases to air pollution were then translated to the economic costs incurred by a loss of life, hospitalization, emergency visits, medication, the loss of workdays, and the like. Read More.
