Reducing health risks from environmental pollution

Synonyms:

Strengthening research methodologies to reduce health risks from environmental hazards
Strengthening research to reduce health risks from environmental pollution
Reducing health hazards of environmental pollution
Reducing health risks from environmental hazards

Context:

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends the development and carrying out of interdisciplinary research on the combined health effects of exposure to multiple environmental hazards, including epidemiological investigations of long-term exposures to low levels of pollutants and the use of biological markers capable of estimating human exposures, adverse effects and susceptibility to environmental agents.

Broader:

Reducing
Enhancing scientific and technological research
Conducting integrated environmental health risk assessments
Preventing exposure to environmental hazards
Protecting against health hazards

Narrower:

Preventing pollution
Adopting health impact assessment procedures
Reducing environmental degradation by automobiles
Researching effects of air pollution on human health
Conducting research on the health effects of hazardous wastes in developing countries

Facilitates:

Protecting the environment from contamination
Increasing integrated management of water resources
Promoting good practice in health, environment and safety management

Facilitated by:

Researching public health

Values:

Risk
Hazard
Health
Pollution

Organizations:

Oncological and Biological Centre for Applied Research

References:

United Nations: Microbial Technologies to Overcome Environmental Problems of Persistent Pollutants

Subjects:

Societal Problems → Hazards
Societal Problems → Pollution
Research, Standards → Research
Health Care → Health
Environment → Environment
Science → Methodologies

Type Classification:

E: Emanations of other strategies

Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:

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