World Health Organization : Year 1993 ; World Health Organization, Environmental Health, No. 93.2: World Health Organization Global Strategy for Health and Environment

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 1993 ; World Health Organization, Environmental Health, No. 93.2: World Health Organization Global Strategy for Health and Environment
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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I. INTRODUCTION The World Health Assembly in May 1992 (resolution WHA45.31) requested the Director- General to Yonnulate a new global WHO strategy for environmental health based on the findings and recommendations of the WHO CMnmlssion on Hdth and Environment and on the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development ...'. This document contains the global strategy for health and environment and a discussion of the bases and means fw its implementation. The subject of 'health and environment, studied by the WHO Commlsslon, encompasses the health consequences af interaction between human pnpuktions and the whde range of factors in their physical and social environments. The physical environment includes both natural and manmade elements, consisting of physical, chemical, and biological factors. The social environment includes the social conditions (values, customs, beliefs, etc.) and structures - for example, those affecting access to employment and education -that determine the distribution of health risks and health-sustaining benefits. It has been made Clear by the WHO Commission that health and environment are related subjects needlng to be considered in the broad context of overall development, wkh the active participation of the staff of numerous programmes and representatives of many disciplines. At the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in June 1992, representatives of more than 150 Member States adopted after negotiating at the highest pdklcal level Agenda 21 - an action plan to guide national and international activiiies for the years to come. WHO'S response, considering the programmes and responsibilities related to health and the environment agreed upon by Member States, is a new global strategy. Thus far in WHO environmental health has been primarily the responsibility of the programmes for the promotion of environmental health and the promotion of chemical safety. Whle their contrlbutlons remain central to the overall effort, the participation of the whole Organization must be ensured W it Is to fulfd Its responsibilities for implementation of Agenda 21. it is for these reasons that the global strategy is a strategy for health and environment.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS pwa I. INTRODUCTION .................................................... I II . SITUATION ANALYSIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Health. environment and development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Assessment of country capabilities and needs ............................... 4 Health and the environment .m ajor developments in WHO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Ill . BASES FOR THE GLOBAL STRATEGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Healthforall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Mandates provided by Health Assembly resdutlons and other statutory texfs . . . . . . . . 9 Agenda 21 and the WHO Commission on Health and Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 IV . WHO GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT ............... 11 G d sa nd objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Components of the global strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Enhanced programme for the promotion of environmental health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Spaclfk areas for action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Expanded programme for the promotion of chemical safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Development of the expanded programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Programmeactivitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Broader action and cdlaboratlon for health and environment throughout WHO . . . . . 20 Stronger pannerships with other international and nongovernmental organizations . . 24 Means of implementing the strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Planning at the national level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Organizational arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Information for better management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Meetingresourceneeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Monitoringandevaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28