In focus archive

• Climate change: heat-health action plans
• Reducing climate change is good for your health
• Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) outbreak
• Healthy Housing
• Early life opportunities
• Lancet article
• African health and environment ministers meet to chart continental response to environmental risk to health - English version
  pdf, 406kb
• African health and environment ministers meet to chart continental response to environmental risk to health - Portuguese version
  pdf, 357kb
• Extreme heat wave wildfires cause public health concerns
  Regional office for Europe - EURO / 12 August 2010
• Climate change: heat-health action plans
  Regional office for Europe - EURO
• Health considerations within National Adaptation Programmes for Least Developed Countries and Small Island States
  pdf, 92kb
  10 June 2010
• Millennium Development Goals: Progress towards health-related
  May 2010

Do mobile phones pose a cancer risk?

• Study [pdf 178kb]
• Press release [pdf 177kb]
• Electromagnetic fields and public health: mobile phones

• Action is needed on chemicals of public health concern - English
  pdf, 103kb
• Action is needed on chemicals of public health concern - French
  pdf, 80kb
• Health and Climate Change: overview of health consideration within national adaptation programmes: action for climate change in least developed countries and small island states
  pdf, 92kb
• Respiratory conditions and the effects of the ash cloud
• CD-ROM Vision 2030
• What can health impact assessment (HIA) offer?

The Health benefits of tackling climate change - an executive summary for the Lancet series

• More information

WHO calls for tighter standards on indoor radon

• Backgrounder
• Fact sheet
• More about radon
• WHO Handbook on Indoor Radon - A Public Health Perspective [pdf 595kb]

Third International Conference on Children's Health and the Environment - 7-9 June, Busan, Republic of Korea

• More information
• Press release
• The Busan Pledge for Action
  pdf, 37kb

Influenza A(H1N1) - updates

• More information

A Big Step Forward towards a DDT-Free World

• More information
• DSSA Programme in Africa at a glance
  pdf, 108kb

Health and Climate Change

Copenhagen, 10-12 March 2009

• More information

First Inter-Ministerial Conference on Health and Environment in Africa

Libreville declaration and Conference outcomes

• More information

Climate change and public health: a research agenda

• More information

Health and Climate Change, COP-14 Poznan, Poland

• Side event
  pdf, 84kb
• Flyer
  pdf, 871kb
• More information

Senegal: Outbreak of lead intoxication in Thiaroye sur Mer

06 August 2008

• More information

ConvEX-3 2008: International Emergency Response Exercise

• More information

WHO publications on health and climate change (1990-2008)

• More information

WHO position statement

• Information note
  pdf, 290kb

Strengthening malaria control while reducing DDT

• More information

Health and environment lexicon

• More information

Exposure to mercury

• Information note
  pdf, 117kb

Children and rabies

• Information note
  pdf, 97kb

Lead in toys

• Information note
  pdf, 12kb