10 facts on children’s environmental health
출처 : WHO, December 2009
http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/children_environmental_health/en/index.html
All children need healthy, safe and protective environments to ensure normal growth, development and well-being.
Nearly one-third of the nine million under-five child deaths every year are associated with environment-related causes and conditions. Environmental risk factors often act in concert, and their effects are exacerbated by adverse social and economic conditions – particularly conflict, poverty and malnutrition.
Read the fact file on children’s environmental health
Related links
Preventing disease through healthy environments: Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease
The global burden of disease: 2004 update
World Health Statistics 2009
Global burden of disease and risk factors [pdf 2.90Mb]
World Bank, World Health Organization, Fogarty International Center and National Institutes of Health, 2006.
