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Saturday, December 26, 2009

Children's environmental health


10 facts on children's environmental health

December 2009

A girl cooks on an indoor stove
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.

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.

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