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1025601
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b779971
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| Title & Author
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Health environment : : managing the linkages for sustainable development : a toolkit for decision-makers : synthesis report.
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| Publication Statement
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Geneva :: World Health Organization, United Nations Environment Programme,, ©2008.
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86 pages :: illustrations, portraits
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| ISBN
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9241563729
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: 9789241563727
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| Notes
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"Editor and writer: Elaine Fletcher"--Page 6.
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"WHO/UNEP Health Environment Linkages Initiative (HELI)."
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Cover title.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-86).
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| Contents
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I. Defining the Linkages -- 1. Environmental hazards and health impacts -- 2. Human settings and economic sectors -- 3. Ecosystem frameworks for health and environment -- 4. Focus on vulnerable populations -- 5. Towards integrated packages of interventions for linked health and environment action -- II. Improving Health and Environment Decision-Making -- Challenges, Needs and Opportunities -- 1. Drivers of health and environment decision-making -- 2. Health and environment ministries: a closer look -- 3. From data to decisions: using evidence effectively -- 4. Bridging the evidence-to-policy gap -- 5. Key needs of decision-makers: intersectoral dialogue; assessment and tools for quantifying health and economic impacts -- 6. Engaging decision-makers and stakeholders -- 7. Communication with decision-makers and stakeholders -- III. Tools for Managing Health and Environment Linkages -- Impact assessment: from evidence to decisions -- 1. Current practice and problems in HIA and EIA -- 2. Environmental Impact assessment -- 3. Health impact assessment -- 4. Enabling conditions for effective impact assessment -- IV. Quantifying Impacts in Human and Financial Terms -- Burden of disease assessment and economic valuation -- 1. Quantifying population health impacts -- 2. Making the economic case for health and the environment -- 3. Challenges for economic assessment -- 4. Relating economic valuation to policy-making -- V. Improving Health and Environment Decision-Making -- Guidance on integrated approaches -- 1. Integrating health and environment impact assessment with economic development -- 2. Guiding principles -- 3. Defining the decision-making and assessment scenario -- 4. Step by step process components -- VI. Pilot Projects -- Jordan, Thailand and Uganda -- 1. Jordan: water is life -- 2. Thailand: reducing environmental risks and enhancing health through sustainable agriculture -- 3. Uganda: livestock, ecosystems and development -- VII. Conclusion -- Consolidating health and environment linkages: a contribution to global policy agendas -- 1. Reconciling fragmented approaches -- 2. Repositioning health and environment sectors towards proactive policies -- 3. Critical link to the achievement of global development priorities.
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Environmental health.
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Environmental policy.
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Sustainable development.
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Environmental health.
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Environmental policy.
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Higiene ambiental.
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Sustainable development.
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Environmental Health-- economics.
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Conservation of Natural Resources.
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Decision Making.
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Ecosystem.
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| LC Classification
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RA565.H394 2008
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2009 B-578
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WA 30.5H4338 2008
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Fletcher, Elaine.
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United Nations Environment Programme.
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WHO/UNEP Health and Environment Linkages Initiative.
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World Health Organization.
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| Spine Title
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Managing the linkages for sustainable development
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