The determinants of health
Waste
Evidence of health impacts focuses on environmental and social determinants related to:
- the transmission of agents of infectious disease from human and animal excreta (sanitation, hygiene and water-related);
- exposure to toxic chemicals in human and animal excreta; and in industrial wastes discharged into the environment;
- environmental degradation, direct and indirect impacts on health;
- exposure to radioactive wastes;
- exposure to health-care wastes;
- exposure to solid wastes and involvement in informal waste recycling; and
- breeding of disease vectors.
Waste evidence documents
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Waste management and public health:
The state of the evidence. SWPHO. Pheby, Grey, Giusti and Saffron - July 2002 - WHO - Water and sanitation web site
- Sanitation Connection web site
- Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council
- WHO - Ionizing radiation web site
- Health care waste management
- Health-care waste management web site
- Injection Safety web site