Summary of the 2016 World Health Organization Report and 2021 Compendium on environmental diseases
https://doi.org/10.4081/wpph.2023.9604
Accepted: 19 January 2023
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The report written by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2016 presents an extensive assessment to show how the improvement of the environment can promote health and well-being. The awareness of how many diseases could be avoided by focusing on environmental risk factors would give a boost to global efforts to promote preventive health. The results obtained by the quantitative analysis on the burden of diseases attributable to the environment, confirm that 24% of global deaths and 26% of deaths among children under 5 years are caused by modifiable environmental risk factors. For this reason, this report strongly supports the idea that the environment is a solid platform for good public, community and individual health. Furthermore, in 2021, WHO with the United Nations developed a Compendium, which provides strategies and key guidance for acting on environmental conditions as a key contributor to reducing many communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). In the following article we examined the environment-related diseases according to WHO paperwork.
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