Reports the Associated Press. The WHO coordinator on health and sustainable development, Eugenio Villar, said further meetings will be scheduled to establish concrete policies. Infant Mortality rates are up to three times national averages. Substance Abuse is rife, while rising suicide rates and domestic violence point to worsening mental health as traditional family values are breaking down. Since 1970's rates of disease and trauma have increase several hundred percent in Russia.
Environmental degradation threatens indigenous people in the Pacific.
The report cites hazardous waste dumping, nuclear testing, chemical burn-off, mining, logging and pressure on space from tourist development. Maoris in New Zealand and Aborigines in Australia have far more psychiatric problems, more accidents and more disease than the general population of those countries. The health situation of millions of tribal people is abysmal, the report said. In the state of Maharashtra, thousands of Korku people have dies in the past few years from starvation. NY 10040-2450 USA Tel.