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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 ...
Climate change is impacting human lives and health in a variety of ways. It threatens the essential ingredients of good health - clean air, safe drinking water, nutritious food supply, and safe shelter - and has the potential to undermine decades of progress in global health. Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause ...
In 2016, as much as 24% of all deaths worldwide were attributable to the environment. Factors include air pollution, water and sanitation, increasing heat waves and severe weather events, harmful exposure to chemicals and more. The estimation of the burden of disease from environmental factors relies on information about exposure and exposure–response relationships.Understanding how much ...
A compelling body of evidence documents how environmental health issues such as environmental pollution, poor water supply and sanitation, lack of access to clean energy sources, and unsafe homes and workplaces have disproportionately negative consequences for disadvantaged groups in the European Region and elsewhere, hampering the progress of ...
Environmental risk factors such as air, water and soil pollution, chemical exposures, climate change, and ultraviolet radiation contribute to more than 100 diseases and injuries worldwide. In 2012, an estimated 12.6 million people died as a result of living or working in an unhealthy environment, that’s nearly 1 in 4 global deaths. The Philippines is not spared from this burden with ...
Environmental risks that children are particularly vulnerable to include air pollution, inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene, hazardous chemicals and wastes, radiation, climate change as well as emerging threats like e-waste. Reducing environmental risks could prevent 1 in 4 child deaths.
In 1989, concerned about the growing evidence of the impact of hazardous environments on human health, WHO/Europe initiated the first ever environment and health process, towards a broad primary prevention public health approach, and to facilitate intersectoral policy-making.
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.
One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognizes that the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and interdependent.
Many factors combine together to affect the health of individuals and communities. Whether people are healthy or not, is determined by their circumstances and environment. To a large extent, factors such as where we live, the state of our environment, genetics, our income and education level, and our relationships with friends and family all have considerable impacts on health, whereas the ...