Between 40 and 120 billion zł loses annually Polish economy due to air pollution and benzopyrene.
They include the amount spent on hospitalization, lost work days, or loss of business. In terms of content of harmful chemicals air quality in Poland is the worst in the European Union.
– Poland has the worst air quality in the European Union for particulate matter and benzopyrene, wherein the second compound is highly carcinogenic and mutagenic – says Business agencies Newseria Luke Adamkiewicz, advisor. dioxide and health in dealing with the environmental non-profit health & amp; Environment Alliance.
Weaker Health
For years, in this respect Poland is among Europe’s laggards. This situation has an impact on public health.
– Concentrations, which are seeing, are not so high that healthy person, going into the street during the day, she could die. But living in this country, and breathing contaminated air, health every year to weaken – reserves Adamkiewicz. – It can cause respiratory diseases, eg. Chronic asthma, cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis and ultimately lead to death due to stroke or heart attack.
The annual death toll of 40 thousand. people
Experts estimate that due to air pollution each year die prematurely as 40 thousand. people.
It also causes certain economic losses. Poland bears because of this high external health costs, not paid directly by the health service, but eg. By ZUS (lost work days) and employers (less profitable). If you add up all the costs involved and take into account the value of life, which also loses it – according to Luke Adamkiewicz – the cost of closing in the amount of from 40 to 120 billion per year.
– This estimation has such a large range because everyone else is life is valued – explains Adamkiewicz. – Losses are not only deaths but also of lost working days, hospitalizations, or direct costs, and disease.
At the end of last year in Poland was very high air pollution and were called. smog episodes (oversize concentrations of toxic dust in the air). As the analysis HEAL, in five cities (Warsaw, Krakow, Katowice, Wroclaw, Zakopane) increased the number of hospitalizations due to exacerbations of symptoms of cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases. Institutions have suffered in this respect certain costs – in two weeks approx. 2.2 million zł.
– These are direct losses associated with air pollution, not only for the lost days of work and economic losses – explains Łukasz Adamkiewicz. – Changes to improve air quality contribute in turn to savings, eg. In the health service.
The most severe losses are related to health. Nationally, the number of people with chronic diseases, include asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Another problem is cardiovascular disease: hypertension, atherosclerosis or ischemic heart disease, which is combined with myocardial infarction, ischemia and stroke. Add to that cancer, not just lung, but also the bladder, which increasingly appears in Poland.
– These diseases are little and translate into economy – emphasizes Luke Adamkiewicz. – We are talking about the cost of population, that is something that can be statistically present. For some tests we are talking about a percent of GDP. This means that improving the air, having more people with efficient, wpłynęlibyśmy a positive effect on our economy.
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