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We offer various packages in the field of environment and health:

News in English:

newsletter on children's health and environment (INCHES newsletter)
find English publications mostly of relevance for Asia at the SDPI-Homepage, especially the regular "Research and News Bulletin"
several discussion groups can be booked e.g. on Climate Change, Electromagnetic Fields, and General Discussion

News in Italian:

ISDE Italy newsletter

News in German:

newsletter on Indoor Air Quality (Innenraum-Newsletter, ISDE Austria)
news from German, Austrian, and Swiss ISDE affiliates

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Pharmaceuticals in the environment

Pharmaceuticals are a very important tool in health care. However, when entered into the environment, they might have adverse effects. Antibiotics in the environment might spread resistant microbes. Residuals of pharmaceuticals in the drinking water, mixed with other chemicals, might affect the foetus' development. The precautionary principle tells us that we should reduce the concentrations of pharmaceuticals in environment as much as possible.

Impact of mining coal seam gas

Coal seam gas mining (CSG) may have adverse impacts on human health by contamination of drinking and agricultural-use water, and air. Contaminants of concern include many of the chemicals used for fracking, as well as toxic substances produced through this process and mobilised from the sedimentary regions drilled. Some of these compounds can produce short-term health effects and some may contribute to systemic illness and/or cancer many years later.

Poverty and health

Cathey Falvo at the United Nations Headquarters, New York, in June, 2012:

Poverty and health are related: the poorer you are the less healthy you are; the more your health fails, the more you move into poverty. When your health fails, you work less and, are less efficient when you do. Businesses run more smoothly if, employees are healthy.
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The health factor

Failure to prevent pollution and protect human health is creating a costly legacy for Australia.