The World Health Organisation (WHO) aims to build a better, healthier future for people all over the world. Working through offices in more than 150 countries, WHO staff work side by side with governments and other partners to ensure the highest attainable level of health for all people.
This report was developed as a policy-relevant summary of potential benefits to health from reducing emissions of short-lived climate pollutants. The report brings together available knowledge...
This report presents the results of a systematic review of evidence of the health effects of black carbon (BC). The Task Force on Health agreed that a reduction in exposure to PM2.5 containing BC...
To enhance health co-benefits across urban policies which tackle air pollution and climate change, WHO, in cooperation with various international, national, and local partners, implemented the...
A final workshop for the project “Estimating the Integrated Climate, Environmental and Health Benefits of Air Quality Management Plans in the Metropolitan Areas of Aburra’s Valley and Cali (...
Household air pollution disproportionately impacts women and children’s health, and is a main cause of noncommunicable disease such as, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer...
More than half of the world’s population lives in cities today. A city’s most important asset is the health of its citizens. Yet, more than 80 per cent of people living in urban areas are exposed...
WHO/Europe's software tool AirQ+ performs calculations that allow quantification of the health effects of exposure to air pollution, including estimates of the reduction in life expectancy....
The BMJ aims to lead the debate on health, and to engage doctors, researchers and health professionals to improve outcomes for patients.
This BMJ editorial is a call to...
Climate Negotiations for Health Professionals is a short online training designed together by Climate Tracker and the World Health Organisation.
The course is structured to give you a good...
Air quality monitoring, modelling and forecasting is an essential element of the global effort to assess and develop appropriate policy responses to reduce the immense damage to human health...
Building Communications Campaigns around Sustainable Transport, Air Pollution & Urban Health Issues
Globally, 7 million deaths were attributable to the joint effects of household (HAP) and ambient air pollution (AAP) in 2016. About 94% of these deaths occur in low and middle‐income (LMI)...
The COP 24 Special Report: Health and Climate Change was written at the request of Frank Bainimarama, COP 23 President and Prime Minister of Fiji, with the aim to provide:
La Agencia de Protección Ambiental de los EEUU (US EPA, por sus siglas en inglés), Battelle y la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) colaboraron para desarrollar módulos de...
Regular physical activity is proven to help prevent and treat noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and breast and colon cancer. It also helps to prevent...
More than a decade after WHO published Inheriting the world: The atlas of children’s health and the environment in 2004, this new publication presents the continuing and emerging challenges to...
In support of the implementation of the WHO guidelines for indoor air quality: household fuel combustion (2014), WHO developed the Household Energy Assessment Rapid Tool (HEART) to identify...
The report presents framework principles on human rights and the environment. It maps human rights obligations related to the environment. The 16 framework principles described set out basic...
Climate change affects health through a range of different pathways: from extreme weather events, to infectious disease, to water and food security. The actions that would be necessary to keep...
Addressing air pollution makes sense health-wise and as an investment in a clean and livable future. he Urban Health and Sustainable Development web platform gives cities access to data, tools,...
This presentation presents the BreatheLife campaign, and provides the audience with information about how to build a local BreatheLife campaign. The presentation is in Spanish.
In 2015, 5.9 million children under age five died. The major causes of child deaths globally are pneumonia, prematurity, intrapartum-related complications, neonatal sepsis, congenital anomalies,...
Of the 12.6 million deaths caused by the environment each year, nearly two thirds are due to NCDs, which have risen sharply over the last decade. Growing evidence indicates that early life...
This powerpoint presentation presents an overview of the CCAC Urban Health Initiative which is underway in Accra, Ghana and Kathmandu, Nepal.
This document presents results from the Climate & Clean Air Coalition’s Urban Health Initiative reported between July 2016 and June 2017. These results were recorded using the...
This report presents a summary of methods and results of the latest WHO global assessment of ambient air pollution exposure and the resulting burden of disease.
Air pollution has become a...
This brochure gives an overview of the BreatheLife campaign. It looks at the health risks and impacts of air pollution and solutions to the problem.
This factsheet on the BreatheLife Campaign outlines the health and climate impacts of air pollution, the benefits of fast action to improve air quality, and pratical solutions to the problem...
Household air pollution is the single most important environmental health risk worldwide, and women and children are at particularly high risk from exposure. This global report provides new data...
Presentación utilizada en el webinar "Respira La Vida: Aire Limpio, Futuro saludable para las ciudades del Peru" sobre los impactos en la salud de la contaminación atmosférica, el 7 de...
Presentación utilizada en el webinar "Respira La Vida: Aire Limpio, Futuro saludable para las ciudades del Peru" sobre la campaña Respira la Vida, el 7 de diciembre de 2016.
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La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) y la Coalición de Clima y Aire Limpio (CCAC) se han asociado en una campaña global de sensibilización acerca de la contaminación del aire y la salud:...
More than 80% of people living in urban areas that monitor air pollution are exposed to air quality levels that exceed the World Health Organization (WHO) limits. While all regions of the world...
This publication is a compilation of facts about 100 cities in nearly 30 of the 53 countries in the WHO European Region that were members of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network in Phase V. It...
With 173 million people, Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa. As the continent’s main exporter of oil, Nigeria faces the challenge of balancing global energy demands and...
This document in the first part reviews and synthesizes the first five years of implementation (2008–2013) of projects on health adaptation to climate variability and change in low- and middle...
This report was developed as a policy-relevant summary of potential benefits to health from reducing emissions of short-lived climate pollutants. The report brings together available knowledge...
Residential heating with wood and coal is an important source of ambient (outdoor) air pollution; it can also cause substantial indoor air pollution through either direct exposure or...
This publication reveals the new indoor air quality guidelines for household fuel combustion that aim to help public health policy-makers, as well as specialists working on energy, environmental...
In new estimates released, WHO reports that in 2012 around 7 million people died - one in eight of total global deaths – as a result of air pollution exposure. This finding more than doubles...
This report presents the results of a systematic review of evidence of the health effects of black carbon (BC). The Task Force on Health agreed that a reduction in exposure to PM2.5 containing BC...
