Children's environmental health

10 facts on children's environmental health December 2009 WHO/C. Gaggero All children need healthy, safe and protective environments to ensure normal growth, development and well-being. Nearly one-third of the nine million under-five child deaths every year are associated with environment-related causes and conditions. Environmental risk factors often act in concert, and their effects are exacerbated by adverse social and economic conditions – particularly conflict, poverty and malnutrition. Read the fact file on children's environmental health RELATED LINKS Preventing disease through healthy environments: Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease The global burden of disease: 2004 update  World Health Statistics 2009 Global burden of disease and risk factors [pdf 2.90Mb] World Bank, World Health Organization, Fogarty International Center and National Institutes of Health, 2006.