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Lancet Series: Improving road safety measures could save half a million lives every year worldwide

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The largest increases in transport injury death rate have been in Paraguay (+97%), Djibouti (+69%), Lesotho (+50%), and the Seychelles (+41%). These include building a stronger global movement on road safety that incorporates other health and environmental impacts in the solutions (e.g., a year between 1990 and 2010.

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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

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Recent research cited by the EPI suggests that around five million people die prematurely every year due to air pollution, accounting for approximately one in every ten deaths annually. Seychelles ranks as the most-improved country over the past decade, due largely to its commitment to combating greenhouse gas emissions.

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