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World Health Day 2012: Good health adds life to years

World Health Day 2012: Good health adds life to years

4 abril 2012

On World Health Day (7 April), the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for urgent action to ensure that, at a time when the world’s population is ageing rapidly, people reach old age in the best possible health. In the next few years, for the first time, there will be more people in the world [...]

World Health Day 2012: Good health adds life to years
Environmental health inequalities in Europe

Environmental health inequalities in Europe

Resumen del texto publicado por la Organización Mundial de la Salud: Recent debate on the social determinants of health has indicated that the unequal distribution of health and well-being in national populations is a major challenge for public health governance. This is equally true for environmental health conditions and for exposure to environmental risk, which [...]

Asbestos-linked cancer warning for emerging economies

Asbestos-linked cancer warning for emerging economies

Cancer deaths caused by asbestos exposure are starting to fall in high-income countries thanks to widescale prohibition of its use. But many low- and middle-income countries that continue to use the mineral in building and transport industries face a surge of deaths in the coming decades, warns a study published this month in the Bulletin [...]

WHO guidelines for indoor air quality: selected pollutants

WHO guidelines for indoor air quality: selected pollutants

Resumen del documento publicado por la Organización Mundial de la Salud: This book presents WHO guidelines for the protection of public health from risks due to a number of chemicals commonly present in indoor air. The substances considered in this review, i.e. benzene, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, naphthalene, nitrogen dioxide, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (especially benzo[a]pyrene), radon, [...]


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