Nooku Health - Improving Noncommunicable Disease Prevention through long-term, personalised Air Quality Monitoring

拟议的项目是通过全面监测家庭和商业环境中的空气质量来预防非传染性疾病。空气污染是一个主要的环境风险因素，也是导致慢性非传染性疾病的因素。世界卫生组织（世卫组织）在2019年估计，10个主要死亡原因中有7个是非传染性疾病。就死亡率和发病率（残疾调整生命年）而言，空气污染是全球疾病负担的五大风险因素之一。世卫组织估计，2018年空气污染造成700万人死亡，其中420万人死于环境空气污染。经济合作与发展组织估计，到2060年，全球室外空气污染相关的医疗费用将达到$21 billion in 2010, projecting this to rise to US$ 1760亿美元。在英国，DEFRA估计每年空气污染造成的经济成本为90 - 190亿英镑，是肥胖造成的经济成本的两倍。\[1\]提议的服务——Nooku Health——将利用现有的研究和人工智能来提供个性化和可互操作的警告和信息系统，以支持用户识别他们生活和工作环境中的不利环境趋势。Nooku Health旨在通过个性化、长期的室内空气质量监测来补充Nooku现有的产品。这将有助于实现Nooku的愿景，即提供一系列设备和服务，通过智能监测、互动预防和主动治疗不利环境条件来改善健康生活。\[1\] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abfba0＃fnref-erlabfba0bib2

The proposed project is addressing the prevention of noncommunicable diseases by holistically monitoring air quality in domestic and commercial environments.Air pollution is a major environmental risk factor and contributor to chronic, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2019 estimating that seven of ten leading causes of deaths were NCDs. Air pollution is in the top five of all risk factors for the global burden of disease in terms of mortality and morbidity (disability-adjusted life years). The WHO estimated that air pollution had caused seven million deaths in 2018, 4.2 million of which were caused by ambient air pollution. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has estimated global outdoor air pollution-related healthcare costs of US$21 billion in 2010, projecting this to rise to US$176 billion in 2060\. In the UK, DEFRA estimates the economic cost from the impacts of air pollution at £9-19 billion every year, i.e. double the estimated economic cost of obesity. \[1\]The proposed service - Nooku Health - will make use of existing research and artificial intelligence to provide a personalised and interoperable warning and information system to support users with the identification of adverse environmental trends in their living and working environments. Nooku Health is aimed at complementing Nooku's existing product offering through personalised, long-term indoor air-quality monitoring. This will overall contribute to Nooku's vision to offer a range of devices and services to improve healthy living through smart monitoring, interactive prevention and proactive treatment of adverse environmental conditions.\[1\] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abfba0\#fnref-erlabfba0bib2