Publications

• Publications
• Statistics

2017

• Inheriting a sustainable world: Atlas on children’s health and the environment
• Don’t pollute my future! The impact of the environment on children’s health

2015

• Gestión Sostenible de Residuos de Aparatos Eléctricos y Electrónicos en América Latina
  This publication has been jointly developed by the Basel Convention, the Centro Regional Basilea para América del Sur (CRBAS), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
  
  Publication available for download in Spanish only. ppt available in English & Spanish.

2013

• State of the science of endocrine disrupting chemicals - 2012
  An assessment of the state of the science of endocrine disruptors prepared by a group of experts for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and WHO

2012

• Endocrine disrupters and child health
  This summary of current knowledge focuses on congenital disorders, cryptorchidism and hypospadias, which have an endocrine connection, on thyroid hormone-related problems, and on puberty.

2011

• Collaboration between the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Highlights from 30 years of Partnership
• Children's Environmental Health - Annual Report
  pdf, 89kb
• Summary of Principles for Evaluating Health Risks in Children Associated with Exposure to Chemicals
  This summary document explains that children are among the most vulnerable of the world's population and environmental factors can affect children's health. It is a summary of Environmental Health Criteria 237.

2010

• Children's Environmental Health - Annual Report
  pdf, 91kb
• Children’s Exposure to Mercury Compounds
  This document is designed to inform and educate health professionals about children's exposure to mercury compounds and its serious consequences. The document emphasizes the critical importance of primary prevention.
• Healthy Environments for Healthy Children
  Key Messages for Action
• Children's Environmental Health Units
  An overview of the services that a Children's Environmental Health Unit may provide to those working towards preventing environmentally-related diseases among children.
• Childhood Lead Poisoning
  The importance of childhood exposure to lead and lead poisoning and its serious consequences.
• Persistent Organic Pollutants: Impact on Child Health
  This document is designed to inform and educate health professionals about persistent organic pollutants and their potential impact on child health and development. The document emphasizes the critical importance of primary prevention.

2009

• Children's environmental health indicators
  Presenting Regional Successes - Learning for the Future

• Children's Environmental Health - Annual Report
  doc, 104kb
  2009

2006

• North American report
  Children's Health and the Environment in North America - A First Report on Available Indicators and Measures

2005

• Children, health and the environment
  Brochure prepared for the Children's World Summit in Japan
• Children’s health and the environment: A global perspective
  A resource manual for the health sector
• Information package in environmental and occupational health

2004

• Burden of disease attributable to selected environmental factors and injuries among Europe's children and adolescents
  Environmental Burden od Disease Series No. 8
• Childhood pesticide poisoning: Information for advocacy and action
• From theory to action: Implementing the WSSD Global Initiative on children's environmental health indicators
• Indoor smoke from solid fuels: Assessing the environmental burden of disease
  Environmental burden of disease series No. 4
• Inheriting the world: The atlas of children's health and the environment
• National profiles on children's health and environment: Assessing readiness for improving environmental health protection systems for children
• Occupational airborne particulates: Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels
  Environmental burden of disease series No. 7
• Occupational carcinogens: Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels
  Environmental burden of disease series No. 6

2003

• Making a difference: Indicators to improve children's environmental health
• Sun protection and schools: An educational package to protect children from ultraviolet radiation
• The physical school environment: An essential component of a health-promoting school

2002

• Children’s health and environment: A review of evidence
• Sun protection: an essential element of a health promoting school
• Using indicators to measure progress on children's environmental health: a call for action

1999

• Childhood lead poisoning: Information for advocacy and action (UNEP, UNICEF 1999)
• Environmental health indicators: Framework and methodologies