The impact of the environment on health by country: a meta-synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health gains that environmental interventions could achieve are main questions when choosing environmental health action to prevent disease. The World Health Organization has recently released profiles of environmental burden of disease for 192 countries.

Methods

These country profiles provide an estimate of the health impacts from the three major risk factors 'unsafe water, sanitation & hygiene', 'indoor air pollution from solid fuel use' and 'outdoor air pollution'. The profiles also provide an estimate of preventable health impacts by the environment as a whole. While the estimates for the three risk factors are based on country exposures, the estimates of health gains for total environmental improvements are based on a review of the literature supplemented by

SUBMITTER: Pruss-Ustun A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2276491 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature