Children's health and environment
 
Children's Environment and Health Action Plan for Europe (CEHAPE)
 
Achieving the goals
 
  
arrowFifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health 
 Parma, Italy, 10-12 March 2010 
   
arrowTools: the CEHAPE action pack 
 A menu of possible actions to take, identified on an evidence base along with documented experiences 
   
arrowCEHAPE implementation 
 WHO support and country progress 
   
arrowCEHAPE and related documents 
 Table of Actions, Budapest Declaration and others 
   
arrow"The future for our children" - Fourth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health 
 Budapest, Hungary, 2004 
   
arrowWHO European strategy on child and adolescent health and development 
   
 

Next Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in 2010 to discuss progress towards the achievement of CEHAPE

This action plan, addressing the environmental risk factors that most affect the health of European children, was adopted by European Ministers in 2004 at the Fourth Conference on Environment and Health. The main commitments focus on four regional priority goals (RPGs) for Europe:

  • RPG I: ensure safe water and adequate sanitation
  • RPG II: ensure protection from injuries and adequate physical activity
  • RPG III: ensure clean outdoor and indoor air
  • RPG IV: aim at chemical-free environments

The next Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health (Parma, Italy, 2010) will discuss progress towards the achievement of these goals, in the context of recent developments such as financial constraints, broader socioeconomic and gender inequalities and more frequent extreme climate events.

By addressing environmental risk factors, the CEHAPE covers two of the seven priorities within the comprehensive WHO European strategy on child and adolescent health and development.

Children from different countries