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Fact sheets: environmental health

Air pollution

Air quality and health
October 2006

Use of the air quality guidelines in protecting public health
June 2005

Children

The environment and health for children and their mothers
February 2005

What happens when children live in unhealthy environments?
April 2003

Climate

Climate and health
July 2004

Occupational health

Occupational and community noise
February 2001

Radiation

Electromagnetic fields and public health: base stations and wireless technologies
May 2006

Health effects of the Chernobyl accident: an overview
April 2006

Electromagnetic fields and public health: static electric and magnetic fields
March 2006

Electromagnetic fields and public health: electromagnetic hypersensitivity
December 2005

Radon and cancer
June 2005

Sunbeds, tanning and UV exposure
March 2005

Depleted uranium
January 2003

Ultraviolet radiation: global solar UV index
August 2002

Electromagnetic fields and public health: extremely low frequency fields and cancer
October 2001

Protecting children from ultraviolet radiation
July 2001

Electromagnetic fields and public health: mobile telephones and their base stations
June 2000

Water

Health-care waste management
October 2004

Waste

Arsenic in drinking water
May 2001

Bottled drinking water
October 2000

Legionellosis

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