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INDOOR AIR POLLUTION ALSO AFFECTS OUTDOOR AIR
INDOOR AIR POLLUTION ALSO AFFECTS OUTDOOR AIR
QUALITY
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or prevent illness, disability and injury.
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... stratospheric ozone depletion and
climate change. These large-scale environmental changes do not necessarily pose qualitatively new risks to
health. Rather, they amplify and extend the health risks posed ... physicians may have difficulty handling the patients because of the lack
of recognition of the relationship between the often complex symptoms and the indoor env...
... Hospital,
s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
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National Institute for Public Health
and the Environment,
Bilthoven, Netherlands
Rutger Nugteren
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National Institute for Public Health
and the Environment,
Bilthoven, ... Environment,
Bilthoven, Netherlands
Brigit Staatsen
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National Institute for Public Health
and the Environment,
Bilthoven, Netherlands
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Companies, 2006.
Health Council of the Netherlands. Pesticides in food: assessing the risk to children. The Hague, Health Council of the
Netherlands Report, June ... are commonly used as stain- and water-repellents in textile surfaces and are
applied during the production of all-weather clothing and other textiles such as tents a...
... new driving forces and global environmental
changes pose challenges to human health and to the environment. These challenges contribute to
environmental degradation – and environmental degradation ... in the surface temperature and affects
weather and climate. Weather is the continuously changing condition of the atmosphere; climate is any
long-term change in the pa...
...
CHILDREN AND CANCER
Children's Health and the Environment
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Publish State-of -the- Art reviews on selected children's environmental health topics
and disseminate widely
Global Plan of Action for Children’s Health and the Environment (2010 - 2015)
... countries and to the attention of the international agencies concerned about
children's health and the environment and the needs for green growth and su...
... human health, and that these policies are effective at protecting the health of the most
vulnerable populations.
CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN NORTH AMERICA
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CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN NORTH AMERICA
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... stratospheric ozone depletion and
climate change. These large-scale environmental changes do not necessarily pose qualitatively new risks to
health. Rather, they amplify and extend the health risks posed ... physicians may have difficulty handling the patients because of the lack
of recognition of the relationship between the often complex symptoms and the indoor env...
... were then integrated and edited by WHO staff.
SCOPE OF THE REVIEW
The review considers the effects of air pollution on the health and development
of the child in the prenatal period, on the ... To identify the relation-
INTRODUCTION
8 EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION ON CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT A REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE
ships between children’s health...