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CHILDREN
IN THE NEW MILLENIUM: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ON HEALTH
UNICEF/UNEP/WHO; 2002. 140p.
ISBN: 92 4 159016 5.
In the context of examining progress made since the 1990 World Summit
for Children and the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development, this book provides an overview of key environmental risks
to children's health and the underlying causes. Specific environmental
threats of major importance to children are described, including lack
of safe water and sanitation, chemical pollution and radiation, indoor
and outdoor air pollution and natural resource degradation. |
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UNEP
DOMESTIC
ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Edited by H.H.B. Gopalan and S. Saksena.
253 p.
United Nations Environment Programme and Tata Energy Research Institute, New
Delhi, 1999.
This book is an assessment of the state of knowledge, contemporary situation,
and status of scientific data that links domestic environmental parameters
to the health of women and component of this study. The book provides examples
of how social and political backgrounds determine women’s activity and
patterns at home and work, and how this consequently affects their health. |
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UN
UNICEF
The
State of World's Children : Women and Children - the Double Dividend of
Gender Equality
UNICEF,
December 2006
ISBN-13:978-92-806-3998-8;
The State of the World's Children 2007 examines the discrimination and disempowerment
women face throughout their lives - and outlines what must be done to eliminate
gender discrimination and empower women and girls. It looks at the status
of women today, discusses how gender equality will move all the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) forward, and shows how investment in women's rights
will ultimately produce a double dividend: advancing the rights of both
women and children. |
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WHO
Essential
Environment Health Standards for Health Care
WHO , 2007
ISBN : 9789241547239
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Promoting
Physical and Active living in Urban Environment
WHO , 2006.
ISBN-13 9789289021814
People's participation in physical activity is influenced by the built,
natural and social environments in which people live as well as by personal
factors such as sex, age, ability, time and motivation. The way people organize
cities, design the urban environment and provide access to the natural environment
can be an encouragement or a barrier to physical activity and active living.
Other barriers exit in the social environments within which people work,
learn, play and live. |
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Environmental
Health in Emergencies and Disasters
WHO, Geneva, 2003.
Wisner, B., Adams, J. 272 p.
This volume distills what is known about environmental health during an
emergency or disaster. It draws on results from the International Decade
for Natural Disaster Reduction, and on experience with sustainable development
between the two Earth Summits, in Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg.
ISBN: 92 4 154541 0. |
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WSH CD-ROM - Water, Sanitation
and Health Electronic Library
WHO, Geneva, 2003.
This second edition of WHO's water sanitation and health electronic library
compiles information available from the World Health Organization on the
theme.
ISBN: 92 4 154577 1.
Available for download from: http://bookorders.who.int/ |
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The
health effects of indoor air pollution exposure in developing countries
WHO, Geneva, 2002.
WHO/SDE/OEH/02.05. 40 p.
by Nigel Bruce, Department of Public Health, University of Liverpool,
Rogelio Perez-Padilla, National Institute of Respiratory Diseases -Mexico,
Rachel Albalak, Department of International Health, Rollins School of
Public Health of Emory University, Atlanta. |
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THE
WORLD HEALTH REPORT 2002: Preventing Risks, Promoting Healthy Life
WHO, Oct. 2002.
This report examines more than risks to health and identifies interventions
that would reduce these risks, thereby increasing healthy life years.
The risks to health include underweight, unsafe sex, high blood pressure,
tobacco, alcohol, unsafe water and sanitation, cholesterol, indoor smoke
from solid fuels, iron deficiency and overweight. |
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CHILDREN'S
HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT: A REVIEW OF EVIDENCE
An overview of the available evidence on the
relationship between the physical environment and children’s health,
identifying both research needs and policy priorities to protect children’s
health from environmental hazards.
A joint report from the European Environment Agency and the WHO Regional
Office for Europe.
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities,
2002.
ISBN 92-9167-412-5. |
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DEPLETED
URANIUM IN KOSOVO: SOURCES, EXPOSURE AND HEALTH EFFECTS - 2001
Department of Protection of the Human Environment,
World Health Organization, Geneva, April 2001. |
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Monitoring
Ambient Air Quality for Health Impact Assessment
WHO Regional Publications, European Series,
No 85.
World Health Organization, Geneva, 1999.
A guide to the principles and methods of air quality assessment aimed
at measuring population exposure to ambient air pollutants and estimating
the effects on health. Addressed to policy-makers as well as scientists
engaged in air quality monitoring, the book responds to the failure of
most monitoring systems to provide data that are useful in estimating
and managing threats to health.
ISBN: 92 890 1351 6. |
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HEALTH
AND ENVIRONMENT IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - 1997
Five Years After the Earth Summit
World Health Organization, Geneva, 1997.
WHO/EHG/97.8 - 242 p.
An expert assessment of what is known about the current state of environmental
degradation, its root causes, and the specific consequences for human
health. |
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN HEALTH
- 1996
WHO/EHG/96.7. 297 p.
McMichael, A.J., Haines, A., Slooff, R., Kovats, S.
Prepared by a Task Group on Behalf of WHO, WMOand UNEP.
An expert scientific assessment of the impact that climate change might
have on the health of the world's population. The report adopts a cautious
approach, using the best scientific studies to provide reasonable predictions
and realistic recommendations for action. Throughout the report, the complexities
of climate change, the limitations of current research methodologies,
and the consequent uncertainty of future predictions are repeatedly emphasized.
Available for download from: http://bookorders.who.int/ |
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Environmental Health in Urban Development
Technical Report Series No 807.
WHO, 1991.
Assesses what can be done to alleviate the many severe health problems
associated with urban environments, where the living conditions of hundred
of millions of people adversely affect their health, cause misery, and
have potentially catastrophic social consequences.
ISBN: 92 4 120807 4.
Available for download from: http://bookorders.who.int/ |
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WHO/UNICEF
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Water
for life: Making it happen
WHO and UNICEF; 2005.
ISBN: 92 4 156293 5.
Basic sanitation must reach 138 million more people every year through
2015 – close to 2 billion in total - to bring the world on track
to halve the proportion of people living without safe water and basic
sanitation. |
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