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could be preventedevery year by
making ourenvironmentshealthier
UPCOMINGEVENTS2014
Issue 61 / January 2014
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Broadening perspectives beyond the health sector
International consultation on workers’ health
At the forthcoming Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC),
WHO will play a leadingrole in the education for health
professionals in the environmental and social determi-nants of
health as a critical aspect of ‘transformative learning’. Such
training can pre-pare health workers to prevent and treat root
causes of disease in their day-to-day clini-cal practice – as well
as positioning future health leaders to interact with other
sectors,in support of sustainable development strategies that
benefit health. As noted by the2012 UN Conference on Sustainable
Development (UNCSD – Rio+20: “Health is a pre-condition for, an
outcome of, and an indicator of all three dimensions of
sustainabledevelopment. Action on the social and environmental
determinants of health, both forthe poor and the vulnerable and the
entire population, is important to create inclusive,equitable,
economically productive and healthy societies.” The Prince Mahidol
AwardConference is an annual international conference focusing on
policy-related health is-sues of global significance.
Experts will gather in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, from 28
to 30 April for an interna-tional consultation: Caring for all
working people: Interventions, indicators and
servicedelivery. Coinciding with the International Day for
Health and Safety at Work, the meet-ing will identify policy
options, strategies and mechanisms to scale up workers’
healthcoverage. The objective is to develop criteria and indicators
for measuring the access ofworkers to interventions for prevention
and control of occupational and work-relateddiseases and injuries.
The meeting is also expected to draw an international road mapand
voluntary targets for scaling up coverage of workers with
preventive health ser-vices. Workers represent half the world’s
population and are the major contributors toeconomic and social
development. Yet, only 15% of workers worldwide have access
tospecialized occupational health services for advising employers
and for providing as-sessment of occupational health risks, health
surveillance, training in safe working
methods and first aid. Universal health coverage cannot be
complete if all working peo-ple, particularly in informal settings,
small enterprises, rural, agricultural and migrantworkers do not
have access to the most needed health services to prevent
occupationaland work-related diseases.
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World Water Day
> 28-
30 AprilWorld Day for Safety
and Health at Work
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AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH (PHE)
WHO EB discusses public health impacts of
mercury and climate change
The recent WHO Executive Board (EB) discussed the secretariat
report on Public healthimpacts of exposure to mercury and mercury
compounds and the role of the WHO andministries of health in
the implementation of the Minamata Convention on mercury. The
EB also issued a resolution that will be considered at the May
2014 World Health As-sembly: The resolution encourages Member
States and requests the WHO Director -General to take
necessary steps with regard to the implementation of the
MinamataConvention and addressing the health aspects of mercury
exposure.
The EB also noted the progress report on climate change and
health, and MemberStates requested WHO to revise and scale up
its technical support to Member States,with a particular focus on
strengthening the climate resilience of health systems, andlinking
to air pollution. Click here for all EB documentation.
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Bringing health to people – health suc-cesses in 2013
Health and environment: Communicatingthe risks.
REGIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH AND
ENVIRONMENT LINKS
WHO Regional Office for Africa
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
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SELECTED HEALTH TOPICS FROM
WHO’S PUBLIC HEALTH AND
ENVIRONMENT WEB SITES
Climate change and health
Ionizing radiation in emergencies
Water, sanitation and health
Indoor airpollution andhealth
Around 3 billion people cook
and heat their homes usingopen fires and leaky stovesburning
biomass (wood, ani-mal dung and crop waste)and coal.
Nearly 2 million people die
prematurely each year fromillness attributable to indoorair
pollution from householdsolid fuel use.
Nearly 50% of pneumonia
deaths among children underfive are due to particulatematter
inhaled from indoor airpollution.
More than 1 million people a
year die from chronic obstruc-tive pulmonary disease(COPD) that
develops due toexposure to indoor air pollu-tion.
Both women and men ex-
posed to heavy indoor smokeare 2–3 times more likely todevelop
COPD.
Read the full fact sheet
The Government of Ghana, in partnership with the United Nations
Children’sFund, WHO and the University of North Carolina, hosted a
regional workshop on household water treatment and safe
storage for four West African countries(Gambia, Ghana, Liberia and
Sierra Leone). The workshop was part of a globaleffort to scale up
household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS) into rele-vant
national water and health policies, and strengthening evaluation
and regu-lation of treatment methods.
Household water treatment and safe
storage in West Africa
New publications on chemical safety
Publications from the WHO International Programme on Chemical
Safety(IPCS) promote the development and harmonization of
scientifically soundmethodologies for the evaluation of risks to
health from chemicals. The exist-ing WHO/IPCS framework on mode of
action and human relevance has beenwidely adopted by many national
and international organizations. A new publi-
cation updates this framework based on the experience of
the past eightyears, and extends the framework’s scope to cover a
broader range of applica-tions, including emerging areas in
toxicity testing methods.
Age- and life stage-related changes in behaviour and
physiology are importantconsiderations in chemical risk assessment.
A new publication summarizes these factors, and proposes a
harmonized set of early life age ranges for mon-itoring and
assessing risks from chemicals.
A recent meeting of the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA)
Partnership fo-cused on preparations for the next high-level
meeting using evidence generat-ed by the Global Analysis and
Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water(GLAAS) initiative.
The information from GLAAS participating countries en-hances the
understanding of linkages between water, sanitation and
economicgrowth, and promotes a culture of mutual accountability,
partnership andshared responsibility. Country profiles help
governments to formulate relevant,high priority, achievable,
specific, measurable and time-bound commitments tofeed into higher
level processes. The second SWA Partnership meeting tookplace in
Geneva, Switzerland on 11–13 November 2013, and was hosted bythe
Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation.
Using evidence from GLAAS to formulate
sanitation and water commitments
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