Reducing health risks from environmental pollution

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends the development and carrying out of interdisciplinary research on the combined health effects of exposure to multiple environmental hazards, including epidemiological investigations of long-term exposures to low levels of pollutants and the use of biological markers capable of estimating human exposures, adverse effects and susceptibility to environmental agents.

1. Reducing
2. Protecting against health hazards
3. Preventing exposure to environmental hazards
4. Enhancing scientific and technological research
5. Conducting integrated environmental health risk assessments

1. Researching effects of air pollution on human health
2. Reducing environmental degradation by automobiles
3. Preventing pollution
4. Conducting research on the health effects of hazardous wastes in developing countries
5. Adopting health impact assessment procedures

1. Protecting the environment from contamination
2. Promoting good practice in health, environment and safety management
3. Increasing integrated management of water resources
4. Advancing environmental health

1. Researching public health

1. Using sustainable technologies
2. Developing technologies to control transboundary air pollution
3. Creating environmental health standards
4. Assessing financing to reduce health risks from environmental pollution and hazards

1. Risk
2. Pollution
3. Health
4. Hazard

1. WHO Third Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health