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 … disease attributed to environmental factors falls on children below five years of age, who account for about 10 percent of the …

The largest global equity gap in health, is among children, and concentrated in communicable diseases. This note …, developed by the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Children's Fund - whose aim is to reduce childhood deaths … children; and, linking health facilities with communities, while ensuring appropriate, and affordable referral arrangements. …

Marine plastic pollution is threatening the potential of the blue economy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA … the World Bank to address marine plastic pollution by taking circular economy approaches. Reducing marine plastic … pollution makes socioeconomic sense. This report summarizes the experiences of Morocco and Tunisia to address marine plastic …

The growth and impacts of plastic pollution have emerged as a major environmental challenge globally. Plastic pollution … has a wide range of impacts on public health, ecosystems, biodiversity, and economies and can occur during each stage of … started to implement policies to manage plastic pollution and its impact, but as yet there is little evidence about their …

of the 2009 World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nation children's Fund (UNICEF) Integrated Management of Childhood …-five children. Two main issues are highlighted by this study. Firstly, the quality of primary health care services provided to … systematically to improve children's health outcomes. …

"New research on urban air pollution casts doubt on the conventional view of the relationship between economic growth … and environmental quality. This view holds that pollution automatically increases until societies reach middle … show in this paper, the empirical relationship between pollution and income becomes much weaker when measures of governance …

This report provides estimates of social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution … damage categories: (i) urban air pollution, including particulate matter and lead; (ii) inadequate water supply, poor … sanitation, and hygiene; (iii) indoor air pollution; and four natural resource damage categories: (a) agricultural damage from …