Preventing disease through healthy environments : towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease /

How much disease could be prevented through better management of our environment? The environment influences our health in many ways - through exposures to physical, chemical and biological risk factors, and through related changes in our behaviour in response to those factors. To answer this questi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Prüss-Üstün, Annette
Corporate Author: World Health Organization
Other Authors: Corvalán, C. (Carlos)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Geneva : World Health Organization, ©2006.
Subjects:
Environmental health.
Environmental monitoring.
Health risk assessment.
Environmental Monitoring
Cost of Illness
Health Status Indicators
Environnement > Surveillance.
Risques pour la santé > Évaluation.
Coût de la maladie.
MEDICAL > Infectious Diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Contagious.
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Health risk assessment
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What is the environment in the context of health?
  • 3. What is meant by the "attributable fraction" of a risk factor?
  • 4. Methods
  • 5. Analysis of estimates of the environmental attributable fraction, by disease
  • 6. Global results of the analysis
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Annex 1: WHO Member States
  • Annex 2: Global statistics produced by the analysis of the environmental disease burden (Tables A2.1, A2.2 and A.2.3)
  • Annex 2: Global statistics produced by the analysis of the environmental disease burden (Tables A2.4)
  • References, acknowlegments, credits.

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