{"id":327,"date":"2024-05-31T07:02:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T07:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=327"},"modified":"2024-05-31T07:02:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T07:02:39","slug":"air-pollution-measured-by-health-costs-per-capita-in-bucharest-highest-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Air pollution measured by health costs per capita in Bucharest, highest in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bucharest is the European city with the highest social costs per capita associated with air pollution, according to the report &#8220;Health costs of air pollution in European cities and the linkage with transport,&#8221; carried out by the Dutch environmental consulting company CE Delft in October 2020 and quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zf.ro\/economia-verde\/dezastru-top-10-orase-cu-cele-mai-ridicate-costuri-sociale-pe-cap-de-22390178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ziarul Financiar<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thus, in 2018, these expenses, including health costs related to medical leaves, medication, and hospitalisations, were EUR 3,004 per capita in Bucharest.<\/p>\n<p>In the top ten cities by this category of costs, there are several cities from Italy, but also others from Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>At the level of a whole year, Bucharest had total costs from this cause of over EUR 6 billion, being surpassed only by London with EUR 11 billion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Approximately 29,000 Romanians die prematurely every year from causes associated with pollution, but we do not have exact data regarding the ailments &#8211; which are the most serious or which affect the most citizens. It would be very important data,&#8221; Oana Neneciu, executive director of the Ecopolis association, told Ziarul Financiar.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/Octav Ganea)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bucharest is the European city with the highest social costs per capita associated with air pollution, according to the report &#8220;Health costs of air pollution in European cities and the linkage with transport,&#8221; carried out by the Dutch environmental consulting company CE Delft in October 2020 and quoted by Ziarul Financiar.\u00a0 Thus, in 2018, these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}