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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Gary Fuller

How does air pollution affect mental health? New study aimed to find out

Houses in Bradford.
Houses in Bradford. With increasing evidence that air pollution affects mental health, researchers focused on prescriptions for drugs for mental health problems such as depression. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

What happens to your mental and physical health when you move to an area with worse air pollution? That’s the subject of a fascinating new UK-based study.

Prof Rosie McEachan, the director of NHS Born in Bradford, asked: “Do already unhealthy communities, who are often poorer members of our society, end up in unhealthier environments because no one else wants to live there; or is it the places themselves that are making people ill?”

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