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Bookmark or Share- Climate change - World Health Organization (WHO)Climate change impacts health both directly and indirectly, and is strongly mediated by environmental, social and public health determinants. Although it is unequivocal that climate change affects human health, it remains challenging to accurately estimate the scale and impact of many climate-sensitive health risks.
- Environmental health - World Health Organization (WHO)Healthier environments could prevent almost one quarter of the global burden of disease. The COVID-19 pandemic is a further reminder of the delicate relationship between people and our planet. Clean air, stable climate, adequate water, sanitation and hygiene, safe use of chemicals, protection from radiation, healthy and safe workplaces, sound agricultural practices, health-supportive cities ...
- Children's environmental health - World Health Organization (WHO)Environmental risks have an impact on the health and development of children, from conception through childhood and adolescence and also into adulthood. The environment determines a child’s future: early life exposures impact on adult health as fetal programming and early growth may be altered by environmental risk factors.
- Environmental Determinants of Health - PAHOA healthy environment is vital to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.”(1) As the intersection of environment and public health, in the framework of this Strategy, environmental public health addresses global, regional, national, and local environmental factors that influence human health, including physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a ...
- Determinants of health - World Health Organization (WHO)Evidence of health impacts focuses on environmental and social determinants related to: the transmission of agents of infectious disease from human and animal excreta (sanitation, hygiene and water-related); exposure to toxic chemicals in human and animal excreta; and in industrial wastes discharged into the environment;
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