From theory to action: Implementing the WSSD Global Initiative on children's environmental health indicators
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2 Using indicators to measure progress on children’s environmental health. A call to action. INCHES, ISDE, PSR, UNICEF, UNEP, WHO. August 2002.
3 The Health and Environment Linkages Initiative aims to promote methods for decision-makers to reduce adverse environmental impacts on human health, and to consider health and environment linkages as an integrated part of strategic decisions on economic and development policies
4 Recommendations for the Development of Children’s Health and the Environment Indicators in North America. Commission on Environmental Cooperation, 2003.
5 Adapted from: Corvalan CF, Briggs D Zielhuis G (Eds.). Decision-making in environmental health. From evidence to action. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2000.
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8 Disability-adjusted life years represent a summary measure of population health, which combines years of healthy life lost due to morbidity and mortality. One DALY is one lost year of healthy life.
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12 The OECD will conduct cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses for selected child health risks. Willingness to pay and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) will be compared to determine the best context for children's health valuation.
13 Regional Summary of Country Profiles on Children's Environmental Health in Latin America and the Caribbean, prepared by Martha Shimkin and Caron Gibson for PAHO. 2003. Available at http://www.paho.org
14 Adapted from Martha Shimkin, CEH Indicators: Setting the Stage for the International Task Force.