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High-level Mid-term Review Meeting of the European Environment and Health Process
Haifa, Israel, 28 – 30 April 2015. Meeting report
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Towards the elimination of asbestos-related diseases in the WHO European Region. Assessment of current policies in Member States, 2014
This publication provides an update on the implementation of a commitment made at the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, held in Parma, Italy in 2010, to develop national programmes for elimination of asbestos-related diseases in the WHO European Region by 2015.
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Improving environment and health in Europe: how far have we gotten?
This report describes the substantial progress that European countries have made in several but not all domains.
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Water and sanitation in the WHO European Region: 2014 Highlights (2015)
Despite overall high levels of access to improved drinking-water sources and sanitation facilities in the WHO European Region, the 2014 update of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation shows that there are still people with unmet basic needs in the Region.
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Implementing the European Regional Framework for Action to protect health from climate change. A status report
How far have Member States in the WHO European Region progressed in implementing the European Commitment to Act on climate change and health? This was the question addressed to members of the Working Group on Health in Climate Change (HIC) of the European Environment and Health Task Force in summer 2012.
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Human biomonitoring: facts and figures
This report summarizes the available human biomonitoring (HBM) data in the WHO European Region with a focus on children’s exposures.
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School environment: policies and current status (2015)
This report includes a summary of existing policies on providing healthy environments in schools and kindergartens, an overview of environmental risk factors in schools, information on design, methods and results of selected recently conducted exposure assessment surveys and a summary of pupils' exposures to major environmental factors, such as selected indoor air pollutants, mould and dampness and poor ventilation in classrooms, sanitation and hygiene problems, smoking and the use of various modes of transportation to school.
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Economic cost of the health impact of air pollution in Europe
This paper extends the analyses of the most recent WHO, European Union and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development research on the cost of ambient and household air pollution to cover all 53 Member States of the WHO European Region.
