Air pollution and existing homes

摘要

Every year the government's Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is required to produce a report on the state of the public's health. The 2017 report, released in early 2018, focuses on air pollution as a major threat to public health and calls for tougher standards to combat wide ranging health challenges. Clearly prevention is better than cure, so the long-term goal has to be to reduce air pollution, but in the meantime what should and could we be doing to protect those most at risk?