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WHO/Europe supports countries in risk assessment and risk management, through three projects.

Local housing and health action plans

As a follow-up to the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in 2004, WHO/Europe and Portugal developed a toolbox to enable local authorities to make a cost-effective survey of their local housing and health priorities. The toolbox, consisting of a project manual and a data collection template, helps local authorities develop and implement local housing and health action plans (LHHAP). The first toolbox was provided in 2007 and implemented in 2008–2009. An improved toolbox is under development.

Risk assessment and risk management of home safety, thermal comfort and indoor environments

In 2006–2007, WHO/Europe supported Lithuania with a project to define the status of home accidents to children and of home safety regulations, funding a national report by the state environmental health centre. In 2008–2009, this collaboration extended to indoor environment and health work, looking into the issues of thermal comfort and the effects of fuel poverty as well as supporting the production of a local information brochure on dampness and mould. For 2010–2011, collaboration is expected to extend to indoor environment risk assessment and management.

Environmental health risk assessment and survey tool development for Roma and marginalized settlements

Marginalized and mobile population groups such as the Roma face significant inequalities in health and often live in substandard settlements, exposing them to a variety of serious environmental risks. A survey tool is being developed to enable the assessment of the environmental health conditions of selected Roma camps and settlements in Montenegro, Serbia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.