The National Department of Health (NDoH) has been working with the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) to quantify the impact of air pollution on health outcomes. The SAMRC is currently conducting the Comparative Risk Assessment Study for South Africa to quantify the attributable deaths and disability from selected risk. Ambient air pollution and indoor (household) air pollution are two of the risk factors being assessed in this study. In addition , the SAMRC is currently at an advanced stage of development of a study that will evaluate the impact on health of a package of interventions aimed at reducing indoor and ambient air pollution.
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