This report complements Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development by looking at environmental health issues … that affect child health broadly, while also exploring the links through malnutrition. This report argues that … environmental health interventions are preventive measures that are imperative to improve child survival with sustainable results in …

Interest in environmental health has increased in recent years, largely because the most vulnerable groups remain … disproportionately exposed to and affected by health risks from environmental hazards. More than 40 percent of the global burden of … inextricably linked, but these links have been forgotten or neglected by policy-makers. The World Health Organization (WHO …