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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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The 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) finds that air quality is the leading environmental threat to public health. The United States places 27 th in the 2018 EPI, with strong scores on some issues, such as sanitation and air quality, but weak performance on others, including deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions.

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