Health impact assessment

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• New report gives preliminary dose estimation from Fukushima nuclear accident
  23-05-2012
  The report describes a preliminary estimate of radiation doses to the public resulting from the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site in Japan in March 2011.
• Environment and health training workshop in Latvia
  27-03-2012
  Seventy participants from the health end environment sectors of eight countries (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) attended a training workshop on environment and health in Riga, Latvia from 19 to 23 March 2012.
• WHO launches expanded European Centre for Environment and Health in Bonn, Germany: new report on environmental health inequalities published
  14-02-2012
  One citizen out of five dies from environment-associated diseases in the WHO European Region. The environmental burden of ill health varies significantly across the Region, however, ranging from 14% to 54%. Within countries, the poor can be exposed to environmental risks five times more often than their wealthier peers, a new WHO report concludes.
• WHO Rome office closes at the end of 2011
  20-12-2011
  The Rome office of the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health is due to close at the end of December 2011. WHO’s work on environment and health in Europe remains a priority and is being consolidated in Bonn, Germany and Copenhagen, Denmark. This will allow the WHO Regional Office for Europe to maintain and strengthen its technical capacities in this area for the benefit of the 53 Member States of the European Region.
• Joint action on environmental health threats discussed
  02-11-2011
  Meeting for the first time in Bled, Slovenia, on 26–28 October 2011, the European Environment and Health Task Force discussed proposed areas of joint action to implement the commitments agreed by European countries in the Parma Declaration on Environment and Health.
• Ministers push environment and health commitments forward
  05-05-2011
  Environment and health ministers, meeting in Paris this week, have agreed on how to monitor progress in reducing the adverse health impact of environmental threats across the European Region. The first meeting of the European Ministerial Board on Environment and Health took place on 4-5 May 2011.
• WHO/Europe concludes mission on health impact of sludge spill in Hungary
  20-10-2010
  A four-day WHO expert field mission to Hungary has developed a set of recommendations to minimize the short- and long-term health impact of the sludge spill at an alumina plant in Hungary on 4 October 2010.
• WHO/Europe to assess health impact of sludge spill in Hungary
  12-10-2010
  A team of WHO experts is travelling to Hungary today to provide additional expertise to the Government-led assessment of the potential short- and long-term health effects of a sludge spill that affected the country’s western territories on 4 October 2010.
• Health and strategic environmental assessment: challenges and opportunities for further involving the health sector
  09-06-2010
• Inequalities, inequities, environmental justice in waste management and health
  22-05-2010
  This is one of a series of five articles published on inequalities and environmental justice risks
• Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, Parma, Italy, 10–12 March 2010
  31-03-2010
  Protecting children's health in a changing environment The Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, organized by WHO/Europe and hosted by Italy, is the latest milestone in the European environment and health process, now in its twentieth year. Focused on protecting children’s health in a changing environment, the Conference set Europe’s agenda on emerging environmental health challenges for the years to come.