Public health and environment

Health through a better environment

Proper environmental management is the key to avoiding the quarter of all preventable illnesses which are directly caused by environmental factors. The environment influences our health in many ways — through exposures to physical, chemical and biological risk factors, and through related changes in our behaviour in response to those factors.

Thirteen million deaths annually are due to preventable environmental causes. Preventing environmental risk could save as many as four million lives a year, in children alone, mostly in developing countries.

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Health and Climate Change, COP-14 Poznan, Poland
Side event [pdf 84kb]
Flyer [pdf 871kb]
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Climate change and public health: a research agenda
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First Inter-Ministerial Conference on Health and Environment in Africa
Libreville declaration and Conference outcomes
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Public health and environment fact sheets
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