Environmental health (EH) is concerned with preventing disease, death and disability by reducing exposure to adverse … taps resources inside and outside the health care system to help improve health outcomes. Environmental health risks can be … prevented or significantly mitigated, by activities in various sectors in addition to health especially infrastructure, energy …

: enormous health care costs and productivity/income losses. Of all global deaths from CVD, 65 percent occur in developing … established CVD is expensive and resource intensive. Unregulated private health systems tend to direct a large proportion of …

, poor eating habits, and risky sex. Investing in health and development of young people is not only the right thing to do … size falls and population growth slows. Combined with investments in health and education, these changes contribute to …

Reproductive health (RH) problems account for a significant part of the burden of disease suffered by poor people in … reproductive health including increasing girls' education, preventing and managing sexually transmitted disease, providing … contraception to avoid abortion, improving pre-natal and delivery care, increasing the number of skilled providers of health care …

The largest global equity gap in health, is among children, and concentrated in communicable diseases. This note … examines the work of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) - a strategy to improve child health outcomes …, developed by the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Children's Fund - whose aim is to reduce childhood deaths …