Implication of Air Pollution on Health Effects in Nepal: Lessons from Global Research

Om Kurmi; Pramod R Regmi; Puspa Raj Pant

doi:10.3126/nje.v6i1.14733

Implication of Air Pollution on Health Effects in Nepal: Lessons from Global Research

Om Kurmi, Pramod R Regmi, Puspa Raj Pant

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Abstract

The Environment Performance Index (EPI), which ranks 180
countries of the world based on high-priority nine environmental issues compromised of more than 20 indicators has ranked Nepal as 149th out of 180 countries on overall issues but 177th out of 180 on air quality issues just above India, China and Bangladesh in 2016.[1]

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	525-527
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nepal Journal of Epidemiology
Volume	6
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3126/nje.v6i1.14733
Publication status	Published - 31 Mar 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Articles in the Nepal Journal of Epidemiology are Open Access articles published under the Creative Commons CC BY License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
This license permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords

Air Pollution,
Nepal

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