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World Healh Organization (WHO)
Childhood Lead Poisoning
This document is designed to inform and educate health professionals about the importance of childhood exposure to lead and lead poisoning and its serious consequences. The document emphasizes the critical importance of primary prevention. Author: World Health Organization. Number of Pages: 72 Publication date: 2010
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Toward a Mercury Treaty that Protects Public Health
A Health Sector Platform for INC 1 – May 25, 2010
The Problem
Mercury is a naturally occurring heavy metal that is a potent neurotoxin.
When inorganic mercury is released into the environment, microbial biotransformation produces methylmercury, easpecially in aquatic environments. This organic compound accumulates in the food chain and concentrates in food stuff eaten by humans.
The most likely routes of human exposure on a population basis are ingestion of methylmercury from contaminated fish—a significant source of nutrition for large segments of the world’s population.
Foster Alternatives to Mercury
• Promote research and development on sustainable, non‐toxic, alternatives to products and processes that contain or use mercury with special emphasis on addressing the needs of developing countries and countries with economies in transition;
• Ensure that developing countries and countries with economies in transition do not become dumping grounds for mercury wastes and excess mercury supplies..Health Care Without Harm; International Council of Nurses; International Society of Doctors for the Environment; World Federation of Public Health Associations. Read more>>
Pharmaceuticals –Permanent Pollutants in Environment
Basic facts and proposed measures to protect the public health and the environment
Prepared for the International Society of Doctors for the Environment
by the Swedish Doctors for the Environment (LfM) in June, 2010
Authors
Åke Wennmalm, MD, PhD. Former environmental director of Stockholm County Council
Bo Gunnarsson, dispenser, PhD. Apoteket AB
Ingrid Eckerman, MD, MPH. Swedish Doctors for the Environment (LfM)
Contact
Ingrid Eckerman, MD, MPH, President, Swedish Doctors for the Environment (LfM) ingrid.eckerman@lakareformiljon.se, www.lakareformiljon.se
Summary
Pharmaceuticals used in humans and for the production of food pose an environmental problem that is still not properly recognized. Although the research has developed during the last decade, much more research is needed.
Pharmaceuticals comprise one of few groups of chemicals specifically designed to act on living cells. Pharmaceuticals are excreted, intact or metabolized, mainly into the urine. They are degraded to various extents in the sewage treatment plants, but some of them leave the plant in active form.
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Managing Chemicals in a Changing Climate to Protect Health
IFCS Childrens and Chemical Safety Champions. Author: Katherine Shea MD, MPH. Contributors: Lilian Corra, MD; Jenny Pronczuk, MD; Marie Noel Brune MSc.
The emerging and unprecedented public health of acceletaring climate change may significantly alter global and local development, use, distribution, and degradation of chemicals in ways that could afect human health. Little has been published to date addresing issues of climate change may alter human expisure to chemicals, identify who may be at particular tisk of harm, and suggest actions that can be taken now to reduce adverse health impacts.
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Envionmental and Health Impacts of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) and Measures for Phase-Out of PCBs in Pakistan. Mahmood A. Khwaja and Jan Glavin.
Science, Technology and Development – Vol. 25, No. 4 (October – December) 2006
Section B: Physical Sciences and Technology. More information click here
Climate Change, Health Check 2020
Dr Graeme Horton, Professor Tony Mc Michael, Doctors for the Environment, Australia April 2008 (prepared by ISDE Australia) A report prepared for the Climate Institute of Australia. In particular the report emphasizes expected changes in medical practice and how patients will come to their doctors in future years with illness due to climate change. Click here
Analysis: Global environmental change and health: impacts, inequalities, and the health sector A J.
McMichael, professor1, S Friel, fellow1, A Nyong, director2, C Corvalan, coordinator3 1 National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2 Centre for Environmental Resources and Hazards Research, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Jos, Nigeria, 3 Public Health and Environment, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.Human pressures on the environment are damaging the world’s biophysical and ecological systems. A J McMichael and colleagues discuss the resulting unequal effects on health and set out strategies to help prevent and lessen the harm. BMJ 2008;336:191-194 (26 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.39392.473727.AD. More Information
ISDE require STOP Lindane for pharmaceutical uses.
2007, November 29. Buenos Aires Argentina Measuring the Environmental Impact on Children’s Health in the Southern Cone (SANA Profile)
Prepared by AAMMA and CICH in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development of Argentina, Health Canada and the University of Ottawa, the Argentinean Society of Pediatrics.With the support of the Canadian Government under the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).The SANA Profile is the result of three years of work. Contributes a look on the knowledge and the relation between children and the environment. The information presented hereby to the researchers, persons decision makers, industry, community in general and individuals is a tool that allows them to identify situations of damage and to develop actions to protect better the children of the environmental damages. The SANA Profile work under the premise that the knowledge and the comprehension precede the action. As soon as it is recognized and the problem is understood, this one can be corrected. English version click here.
SANA Studies
SANA Survey
Article: What will new EU Chemicals Legislation Deliver for Public Health?
The International Society of Doctors for the Environment (Europe) is co-publishing, with the Health and Environment Alliance and CHEM Trust, an article entitled ” What will new EU Chemicals Legislation Deliver for Public Health?” This four page article introduces the new EU law called ‘REACH’, and briefly discusses the health problems linked to chemicals; how REACH can bring health benefits; the types of chemicals causing concern; and how members of the health sector, whose voice is important, can give input to the discussion on the law’s implementation. Article in pdf format click here.
Principles for Evaluating Health Risks in Children Associated with Exposure to Chemicals
First drafts prepared by Dr Germaine Buck Louis, Bethesda, USA; Dr Terri Damstra, Research Triangle Park, USA; Dr Fernando Díaz- Barriga, San Luis Potosi, Mexico; Dr Elaine Faustman, Washington,USA; Dr Ulla Hass, Soborg, Denmark; Dr Robert Kavlock, Research Triangle Park, USA; Dr Carole Kimmel, Washington, USA; Dr Gary Kimmel, Silver Spring, USA; Dr Kannan Krishnan, Montreal, Canada; Dr Ulrike Luderer, Irvine, USA; and Dr Linda Sheldon, Research Triangle Park, USA. Published under the joint sponsorship of the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Labour Organization and the World Health Organization, and produced within the framework of the Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals. This report contains the collective views of an international group of experts and does not necessarily represent the decisions or the stated policy of the United Nations Environment Programme, the International Labour Organization or the World Health Organization. Click here
An Integrated Conceptual Framerwork for Education for Sustainability
Gerbilsky, L., Rost, J. Demianenko, V. Knapp-Meimerg, M., Kuster, D., Maile, S., Moshammer, H., Staroseleteska, O. and Svirskis, A. . International Society of Docotrs fo the Environment Geneva, Switzerland. click here
POPs HOTSPOT: Soil Contamination Due to Demolished DDT (POP) Factory Nowshera (NWFP) Pakistan. Mahmood A. Khwaja. click here.
The cancer incidence temporally index
An index to show temporal changes in the age of onset of overall and specific cancer (England and Wales, 1971- 1999). J.A. Newby, C.C. Busby, C.V. Howard; M.J. Platt. The theory that increasing cancer incidence rates in developed countries are primarily the consequence of an expanding ageing population and improved diagnostic testing is widely held. In the united Kingdom does indeed have an expanding ageing population. Read more click here.
Climate Change Litigation Analysing the law, scientific evidence and impacts on the Environment, Health and Property.
By Dr. Joseph Smith and Professor David Shearman In the absence of mandatory requirements on companies and governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, advocacy groups, public authorities and individuals are turning their attention to legal mechanisms as part of their efforts to compel corporations and governments to address global warning issues. click here
Environmental influences in cancer aetiology
Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, 2006, 1-59, PrEview article. Jhon A. Newby BSc And C. Vyvyan Howard MB, ChB, PhD, FRCPath. click here
Synergistic Interactions between Commonly Used Food Additives in a Developmental Neurotoxicity Test
Karen Lau; W. Graham Mc Lean; Dominic P. Williams; and C. Vyvyan Howard. Received October 20, 2005; accepted December 7, 2005. click here.
Prevenzione e Ambiente in Argentina
I bambini al centro delle azioni di tutela Intrevista a Lilian Corra, pediatra e neonatóloga, che da anni su ocupa di educazione e prevenzione nel suo paese. Nel 1997 ha recevuto il premio Global 500 dell´UNEP, il Programa della Nazioni Unite per l´ambiente riservato alle persone a alle organización che si distinguono in azioni particolarmente efficaci, capaci di megliorare la qualitá dell´ambiente e della vita. Lilian Corra é membro del Collegium Ramazzini, Academia internazionale di esperti in medicina del lavoro e ambiente con sede a Carpi. Intrevista