Preventing disease through healthy environments
Subtitle: towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease
By: A. Prüss-Üstün and C. Corvalán.
Contributors: Corvalán, C.; World Health Organization.
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Environmental health.; Environmental monitoring.; Health risk assessment.; Saúde ambiental.; Monitoramento ambiental.; Fatores de risco.; Efeitos psico-sociais da doença.; Risco ambiental.; Exposição ambiental.; Meio ambiente.; Saúde pública.; Países em desenvolvimento.; Environmental Monitoring.; Cost of Illness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-101).
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. What is the environment in the context of health?; title: 3. What is meant by the "attributable fraction" of a risk factor?; title: 4. Methods; title: 5. Analysis of estimates of the environmental attributable fraction, by disease; title: 6. Global results of the analysis; title: 7. Conclusions; title: Annex 1: WHO Member States; title: Annex 2: Global statistics produced by the analysis of the environmental disease burden (Tables A2.1, A2.2 and A.2.3); title: Annex 2: Global statistics produced by the analysis of the environmental disease burden (Tables A2.4); title: References, acknowlegments, credits.