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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Chronic Kidney Disease in Agricultural Communities in Central America - 2013

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17 Oct 2018

This paper examines the current situation of chronic kidney disease in agricultural communities in Central America. The paper also presents the progress made...

Publication Environment, climate change and health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

The social dimensions of climate change

Dialogue

17 Oct 2018

This paper addresses the social dimensions of climate change from a sustainable, equitable development perspective, understood as “an irreducible holistic ...

Dialogue Environment, climate change and healthSocial determinants of health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

The health benefits of tackling climate change - An Executive Summary for the Lancet Series

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17 Oct 2018

Executive summary of The Lancet Series, authored by an international group of public health, environmental, and other scientists. Each study focuses on one s...

Publication Environment, climate change and health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

Public Health & Environment in the African Region: Report on the Work of WHO

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report presents the work of WHO in managing environmental determinants of human health in the African Region over the period 2010-2011. It highlights WH...

Report Environment, climate change and health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

Protecting Health from Climate Change: Connecting Science, Policy and People

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17 Oct 2018

This publication highlights that all populations will be affected by a changing climate, but the initial health risks vary greatly, depending on where and ho...

Publication Environment, climate change and health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

International minimum requirements for health protection at the workplace

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report provides an analysis of the current spectrum of global, regional and national norms including conventions, standards, directives, regulations, gu...

Report Communicable diseasesEnvironment, climate change and health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

Fact sheet: Climate change

Fact sheet

17 Oct 2018

This fact sheet presents an overview with key facts on climate change and WHO response in the African Region. ...

Fact sheet Environment, climate change and health

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

Climate change is affecting our health

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17 Oct 2018

This brochure presents six paintings commissioned by WHO as part of an art project aiming to support awareness-raising about the health consequences of clima...

Publication Environment, climate change and health

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World Health Organization

WHO guidance to protect health from climate change through health adaptation planning

Guide

17 Oct 2018

This guidance document aims to ensure that the health sector works with partners in the environment and other related communities, and follows a systematic p...

Guide Multisectoral ActionMultistakeholder Collaboration Environment, climate change and healthPrimary health care

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World Health Organization

Our Planet, Our Health, our Future - Human Health and the Rio Conventions

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17 Oct 2018

This report reviews the scientific evidence for the linkages between health and biodiversity, climate change and desertification, the representation of healt...

Publication Environment, climate change and health

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World Health Organization

Quantitative risk assessment of the effects of climate change  on selected causes of death, 2030s and 2050s

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17 Oct 2018

This publication is a WHO-released quantitative assessment of the health impacts of climate change. It constitutes an update and a further development of the...

Publication Environment, climate change and health

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World Health Organization

Second Global Conference Health and Climate report 2016

Report

17 Oct 2018

The 2016 conference showcased how the public health community will support the implementation of the Paris agreement, in order to build healthier and more su...

Report Environment, climate change and health

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