Report Details Health Crisis Hidden In Plastics Lifecycle 19/02/2019 by William New A new report released today and authored by a range of environment and health groups pulls together research that "exposes distinct toxic risks plastic poses to human health at every stage of the plastic lifecycle, from extraction of fossil fuels, to consumer use, to disposal and beyond." Continue reading -> Beat NCDs: Rwanda Celebrates First Car-Free Day, While Kenya Plans Air Pollution Sensors 04/02/2019 by Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rwanda’s capital city, Kigali, celebrated its first car-free day today, while a Kenyan telecom company was reported to have launched a major initiative to install 3,000 low-cost air pollution sensors around the country, in response to growing fears about air pollution’s health impacts. Continue reading -> Draft Global Strategy On Health: Environment, Climate Change Hailed At WHO 31/01/2019 by Catherine Saez Preventable environmental risks lead to a yearly death toll of 13 million people, 7 million of which are caused by air pollution, according to a World Health Organization report presented yesterday to its members attending the organisation’s Executive Board. Time is of the essence and the WHO draft global strategy on health, environment, and climate change received broad support, as well as a draft action plan for small island developing states, particularly vulnerable to climate change. Continue reading -> Vested Interests & Misplaced Economic Incentives Drive Obesity, Undernutrition & Climate Change, Lancet Report Finds 28/01/2019 by Elaine Ruth Fletcher Policy leaders must redesign global economic incentives to advance healthy diets, and take a harder line against commercial interests promoting excessive production and consumption of unhealthy foods. Current trends are driving the inter-related pandemics of obesity and undernutrition as well as climate change, according to a new report by The Lancet Commission on Obesity. Continue reading -> WHO Director Tedros: World Must Redouble Efforts On Health-Related SDGs 27/01/2019 by Elaine Ruth Fletcher Health-related Sustainable Development Goals won’t be met unless global, regional and country efforts are intensified, declared WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheyebresus, yesterday. Continue reading -> WHO Executive Board Meeting: What Are The Hot Topics? 22/01/2019 by Catherine Saez The World Health Organization Executive Board is being asked this week to consider a steep budget increase to cover the ambitious new “Transformation Plan” of Director General Tedros Adhanom Gheyebresus, which aims to improve the health of at least 3 billion people by 2025. The 8 percent budget hike requested for 2020-2021 will be reviewed by the Board along with a range of critical policy issues when it meets for its 144th session from 24 January-1 February. Here's what you need to know to follow the action. Continue reading -> ‘Blue Economy’ Conference Underscores Role Of Fish In Nutrition, Taming Of Ocean Pollution 06/12/2018 by Justus Wanzala NAIROBI, Kenya -- It was the first ever global conference focusing on the ‘blue economy’. The three-day Sustainable Blue Economy Conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya and included a strong focus on environment and health. The East African nation co-hosted the event alongside Canada and Japan. Continue reading -> WHO: Curbing Climate Change Would Save Over 1 million Lives A Year From Air Pollution Alone 05/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Meeting the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep climate change below 2° C could save about a million lives a year by 2050 through reduced air pollution-related deaths alone, says a new World Health Organization Special Report on Health & Climate Change. Continue reading -> Combatting Climate Change Action To Reduce Air Pollution’s 7 Million Deaths: Schwarzenegger At COP 24 Opening 03/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Combating climate change will reduce the huge toll of 7 million deaths from air pollution as well as generating jobs in green energy, former California Governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a surprise appearance today at the opening plenary of the 24th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 24), in Katowice, Poland. Continue reading -> WHO Issues Global Guidelines On Prevention Of Unhealthy Housing 28/11/2018 by Health Policy Watch The World Health Organization has issued a first-ever set of global “Housing and Health Guidelines” intended to guide national governments as well as development actors in shaping healthier housing policies, standards and codes. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Beat NCDs: Rwanda Celebrates First Car-Free Day, While Kenya Plans Air Pollution Sensors 04/02/2019 by Elaine Ruth Fletcher Rwanda’s capital city, Kigali, celebrated its first car-free day today, while a Kenyan telecom company was reported to have launched a major initiative to install 3,000 low-cost air pollution sensors around the country, in response to growing fears about air pollution’s health impacts. Continue reading -> Draft Global Strategy On Health: Environment, Climate Change Hailed At WHO 31/01/2019 by Catherine Saez Preventable environmental risks lead to a yearly death toll of 13 million people, 7 million of which are caused by air pollution, according to a World Health Organization report presented yesterday to its members attending the organisation’s Executive Board. Time is of the essence and the WHO draft global strategy on health, environment, and climate change received broad support, as well as a draft action plan for small island developing states, particularly vulnerable to climate change. Continue reading -> Vested Interests & Misplaced Economic Incentives Drive Obesity, Undernutrition & Climate Change, Lancet Report Finds 28/01/2019 by Elaine Ruth Fletcher Policy leaders must redesign global economic incentives to advance healthy diets, and take a harder line against commercial interests promoting excessive production and consumption of unhealthy foods. Current trends are driving the inter-related pandemics of obesity and undernutrition as well as climate change, according to a new report by The Lancet Commission on Obesity. Continue reading -> WHO Director Tedros: World Must Redouble Efforts On Health-Related SDGs 27/01/2019 by Elaine Ruth Fletcher Health-related Sustainable Development Goals won’t be met unless global, regional and country efforts are intensified, declared WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheyebresus, yesterday. Continue reading -> WHO Executive Board Meeting: What Are The Hot Topics? 22/01/2019 by Catherine Saez The World Health Organization Executive Board is being asked this week to consider a steep budget increase to cover the ambitious new “Transformation Plan” of Director General Tedros Adhanom Gheyebresus, which aims to improve the health of at least 3 billion people by 2025. The 8 percent budget hike requested for 2020-2021 will be reviewed by the Board along with a range of critical policy issues when it meets for its 144th session from 24 January-1 February. Here's what you need to know to follow the action. Continue reading -> ‘Blue Economy’ Conference Underscores Role Of Fish In Nutrition, Taming Of Ocean Pollution 06/12/2018 by Justus Wanzala NAIROBI, Kenya -- It was the first ever global conference focusing on the ‘blue economy’. The three-day Sustainable Blue Economy Conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya and included a strong focus on environment and health. The East African nation co-hosted the event alongside Canada and Japan. Continue reading -> WHO: Curbing Climate Change Would Save Over 1 million Lives A Year From Air Pollution Alone 05/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Meeting the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep climate change below 2° C could save about a million lives a year by 2050 through reduced air pollution-related deaths alone, says a new World Health Organization Special Report on Health & Climate Change. Continue reading -> Combatting Climate Change Action To Reduce Air Pollution’s 7 Million Deaths: Schwarzenegger At COP 24 Opening 03/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Combating climate change will reduce the huge toll of 7 million deaths from air pollution as well as generating jobs in green energy, former California Governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a surprise appearance today at the opening plenary of the 24th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 24), in Katowice, Poland. Continue reading -> WHO Issues Global Guidelines On Prevention Of Unhealthy Housing 28/11/2018 by Health Policy Watch The World Health Organization has issued a first-ever set of global “Housing and Health Guidelines” intended to guide national governments as well as development actors in shaping healthier housing policies, standards and codes. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Draft Global Strategy On Health: Environment, Climate Change Hailed At WHO 31/01/2019 by Catherine Saez Preventable environmental risks lead to a yearly death toll of 13 million people, 7 million of which are caused by air pollution, according to a World Health Organization report presented yesterday to its members attending the organisation’s Executive Board. Time is of the essence and the WHO draft global strategy on health, environment, and climate change received broad support, as well as a draft action plan for small island developing states, particularly vulnerable to climate change. Continue reading -> Vested Interests & Misplaced Economic Incentives Drive Obesity, Undernutrition & Climate Change, Lancet Report Finds 28/01/2019 by Elaine Ruth Fletcher Policy leaders must redesign global economic incentives to advance healthy diets, and take a harder line against commercial interests promoting excessive production and consumption of unhealthy foods. Current trends are driving the inter-related pandemics of obesity and undernutrition as well as climate change, according to a new report by The Lancet Commission on Obesity. Continue reading -> WHO Director Tedros: World Must Redouble Efforts On Health-Related SDGs 27/01/2019 by Elaine Ruth Fletcher Health-related Sustainable Development Goals won’t be met unless global, regional and country efforts are intensified, declared WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheyebresus, yesterday. Continue reading -> WHO Executive Board Meeting: What Are The Hot Topics? 22/01/2019 by Catherine Saez The World Health Organization Executive Board is being asked this week to consider a steep budget increase to cover the ambitious new “Transformation Plan” of Director General Tedros Adhanom Gheyebresus, which aims to improve the health of at least 3 billion people by 2025. The 8 percent budget hike requested for 2020-2021 will be reviewed by the Board along with a range of critical policy issues when it meets for its 144th session from 24 January-1 February. Here's what you need to know to follow the action. Continue reading -> ‘Blue Economy’ Conference Underscores Role Of Fish In Nutrition, Taming Of Ocean Pollution 06/12/2018 by Justus Wanzala NAIROBI, Kenya -- It was the first ever global conference focusing on the ‘blue economy’. The three-day Sustainable Blue Economy Conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya and included a strong focus on environment and health. The East African nation co-hosted the event alongside Canada and Japan. Continue reading -> WHO: Curbing Climate Change Would Save Over 1 million Lives A Year From Air Pollution Alone 05/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Meeting the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep climate change below 2° C could save about a million lives a year by 2050 through reduced air pollution-related deaths alone, says a new World Health Organization Special Report on Health & Climate Change. Continue reading -> Combatting Climate Change Action To Reduce Air Pollution’s 7 Million Deaths: Schwarzenegger At COP 24 Opening 03/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Combating climate change will reduce the huge toll of 7 million deaths from air pollution as well as generating jobs in green energy, former California Governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a surprise appearance today at the opening plenary of the 24th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 24), in Katowice, Poland. Continue reading -> WHO Issues Global Guidelines On Prevention Of Unhealthy Housing 28/11/2018 by Health Policy Watch The World Health Organization has issued a first-ever set of global “Housing and Health Guidelines” intended to guide national governments as well as development actors in shaping healthier housing policies, standards and codes. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Vested Interests & Misplaced Economic Incentives Drive Obesity, Undernutrition & Climate Change, Lancet Report Finds 28/01/2019 by Elaine Ruth Fletcher Policy leaders must redesign global economic incentives to advance healthy diets, and take a harder line against commercial interests promoting excessive production and consumption of unhealthy foods. Current trends are driving the inter-related pandemics of obesity and undernutrition as well as climate change, according to a new report by The Lancet Commission on Obesity. Continue reading -> WHO Director Tedros: World Must Redouble Efforts On Health-Related SDGs 27/01/2019 by Elaine Ruth Fletcher Health-related Sustainable Development Goals won’t be met unless global, regional and country efforts are intensified, declared WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheyebresus, yesterday. Continue reading -> WHO Executive Board Meeting: What Are The Hot Topics? 22/01/2019 by Catherine Saez The World Health Organization Executive Board is being asked this week to consider a steep budget increase to cover the ambitious new “Transformation Plan” of Director General Tedros Adhanom Gheyebresus, which aims to improve the health of at least 3 billion people by 2025. The 8 percent budget hike requested for 2020-2021 will be reviewed by the Board along with a range of critical policy issues when it meets for its 144th session from 24 January-1 February. Here's what you need to know to follow the action. Continue reading -> ‘Blue Economy’ Conference Underscores Role Of Fish In Nutrition, Taming Of Ocean Pollution 06/12/2018 by Justus Wanzala NAIROBI, Kenya -- It was the first ever global conference focusing on the ‘blue economy’. The three-day Sustainable Blue Economy Conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya and included a strong focus on environment and health. The East African nation co-hosted the event alongside Canada and Japan. Continue reading -> WHO: Curbing Climate Change Would Save Over 1 million Lives A Year From Air Pollution Alone 05/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Meeting the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep climate change below 2° C could save about a million lives a year by 2050 through reduced air pollution-related deaths alone, says a new World Health Organization Special Report on Health & Climate Change. Continue reading -> Combatting Climate Change Action To Reduce Air Pollution’s 7 Million Deaths: Schwarzenegger At COP 24 Opening 03/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Combating climate change will reduce the huge toll of 7 million deaths from air pollution as well as generating jobs in green energy, former California Governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a surprise appearance today at the opening plenary of the 24th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 24), in Katowice, Poland. Continue reading -> WHO Issues Global Guidelines On Prevention Of Unhealthy Housing 28/11/2018 by Health Policy Watch The World Health Organization has issued a first-ever set of global “Housing and Health Guidelines” intended to guide national governments as well as development actors in shaping healthier housing policies, standards and codes. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
WHO Director Tedros: World Must Redouble Efforts On Health-Related SDGs 27/01/2019 by Elaine Ruth Fletcher Health-related Sustainable Development Goals won’t be met unless global, regional and country efforts are intensified, declared WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Gheyebresus, yesterday. Continue reading -> WHO Executive Board Meeting: What Are The Hot Topics? 22/01/2019 by Catherine Saez The World Health Organization Executive Board is being asked this week to consider a steep budget increase to cover the ambitious new “Transformation Plan” of Director General Tedros Adhanom Gheyebresus, which aims to improve the health of at least 3 billion people by 2025. The 8 percent budget hike requested for 2020-2021 will be reviewed by the Board along with a range of critical policy issues when it meets for its 144th session from 24 January-1 February. Here's what you need to know to follow the action. Continue reading -> ‘Blue Economy’ Conference Underscores Role Of Fish In Nutrition, Taming Of Ocean Pollution 06/12/2018 by Justus Wanzala NAIROBI, Kenya -- It was the first ever global conference focusing on the ‘blue economy’. The three-day Sustainable Blue Economy Conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya and included a strong focus on environment and health. The East African nation co-hosted the event alongside Canada and Japan. Continue reading -> WHO: Curbing Climate Change Would Save Over 1 million Lives A Year From Air Pollution Alone 05/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Meeting the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep climate change below 2° C could save about a million lives a year by 2050 through reduced air pollution-related deaths alone, says a new World Health Organization Special Report on Health & Climate Change. Continue reading -> Combatting Climate Change Action To Reduce Air Pollution’s 7 Million Deaths: Schwarzenegger At COP 24 Opening 03/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Combating climate change will reduce the huge toll of 7 million deaths from air pollution as well as generating jobs in green energy, former California Governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a surprise appearance today at the opening plenary of the 24th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 24), in Katowice, Poland. Continue reading -> WHO Issues Global Guidelines On Prevention Of Unhealthy Housing 28/11/2018 by Health Policy Watch The World Health Organization has issued a first-ever set of global “Housing and Health Guidelines” intended to guide national governments as well as development actors in shaping healthier housing policies, standards and codes. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
WHO Executive Board Meeting: What Are The Hot Topics? 22/01/2019 by Catherine Saez The World Health Organization Executive Board is being asked this week to consider a steep budget increase to cover the ambitious new “Transformation Plan” of Director General Tedros Adhanom Gheyebresus, which aims to improve the health of at least 3 billion people by 2025. The 8 percent budget hike requested for 2020-2021 will be reviewed by the Board along with a range of critical policy issues when it meets for its 144th session from 24 January-1 February. Here's what you need to know to follow the action. Continue reading -> ‘Blue Economy’ Conference Underscores Role Of Fish In Nutrition, Taming Of Ocean Pollution 06/12/2018 by Justus Wanzala NAIROBI, Kenya -- It was the first ever global conference focusing on the ‘blue economy’. The three-day Sustainable Blue Economy Conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya and included a strong focus on environment and health. The East African nation co-hosted the event alongside Canada and Japan. Continue reading -> WHO: Curbing Climate Change Would Save Over 1 million Lives A Year From Air Pollution Alone 05/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Meeting the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep climate change below 2° C could save about a million lives a year by 2050 through reduced air pollution-related deaths alone, says a new World Health Organization Special Report on Health & Climate Change. Continue reading -> Combatting Climate Change Action To Reduce Air Pollution’s 7 Million Deaths: Schwarzenegger At COP 24 Opening 03/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Combating climate change will reduce the huge toll of 7 million deaths from air pollution as well as generating jobs in green energy, former California Governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a surprise appearance today at the opening plenary of the 24th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 24), in Katowice, Poland. Continue reading -> WHO Issues Global Guidelines On Prevention Of Unhealthy Housing 28/11/2018 by Health Policy Watch The World Health Organization has issued a first-ever set of global “Housing and Health Guidelines” intended to guide national governments as well as development actors in shaping healthier housing policies, standards and codes. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
‘Blue Economy’ Conference Underscores Role Of Fish In Nutrition, Taming Of Ocean Pollution 06/12/2018 by Justus Wanzala NAIROBI, Kenya -- It was the first ever global conference focusing on the ‘blue economy’. The three-day Sustainable Blue Economy Conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya and included a strong focus on environment and health. The East African nation co-hosted the event alongside Canada and Japan. Continue reading -> WHO: Curbing Climate Change Would Save Over 1 million Lives A Year From Air Pollution Alone 05/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Meeting the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep climate change below 2° C could save about a million lives a year by 2050 through reduced air pollution-related deaths alone, says a new World Health Organization Special Report on Health & Climate Change. Continue reading -> Combatting Climate Change Action To Reduce Air Pollution’s 7 Million Deaths: Schwarzenegger At COP 24 Opening 03/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Combating climate change will reduce the huge toll of 7 million deaths from air pollution as well as generating jobs in green energy, former California Governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a surprise appearance today at the opening plenary of the 24th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 24), in Katowice, Poland. Continue reading -> WHO Issues Global Guidelines On Prevention Of Unhealthy Housing 28/11/2018 by Health Policy Watch The World Health Organization has issued a first-ever set of global “Housing and Health Guidelines” intended to guide national governments as well as development actors in shaping healthier housing policies, standards and codes. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
WHO: Curbing Climate Change Would Save Over 1 million Lives A Year From Air Pollution Alone 05/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Meeting the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement to keep climate change below 2° C could save about a million lives a year by 2050 through reduced air pollution-related deaths alone, says a new World Health Organization Special Report on Health & Climate Change. Continue reading -> Combatting Climate Change Action To Reduce Air Pollution’s 7 Million Deaths: Schwarzenegger At COP 24 Opening 03/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Combating climate change will reduce the huge toll of 7 million deaths from air pollution as well as generating jobs in green energy, former California Governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a surprise appearance today at the opening plenary of the 24th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 24), in Katowice, Poland. Continue reading -> WHO Issues Global Guidelines On Prevention Of Unhealthy Housing 28/11/2018 by Health Policy Watch The World Health Organization has issued a first-ever set of global “Housing and Health Guidelines” intended to guide national governments as well as development actors in shaping healthier housing policies, standards and codes. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
Combatting Climate Change Action To Reduce Air Pollution’s 7 Million Deaths: Schwarzenegger At COP 24 Opening 03/12/2018 by Health Policy Watch Combating climate change will reduce the huge toll of 7 million deaths from air pollution as well as generating jobs in green energy, former California Governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a surprise appearance today at the opening plenary of the 24th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 24), in Katowice, Poland. Continue reading -> WHO Issues Global Guidelines On Prevention Of Unhealthy Housing 28/11/2018 by Health Policy Watch The World Health Organization has issued a first-ever set of global “Housing and Health Guidelines” intended to guide national governments as well as development actors in shaping healthier housing policies, standards and codes. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts
WHO Issues Global Guidelines On Prevention Of Unhealthy Housing 28/11/2018 by Health Policy Watch The World Health Organization has issued a first-ever set of global “Housing and Health Guidelines” intended to guide national governments as well as development actors in shaping healthier housing policies, standards and codes. Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older posts