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HUMAN RIGHTS, HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL …
www.who.intbeing to protect human health and the environment. 8 Similarly, the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal 9 begins its preamble aware of the risk of damage to human health. . . and the growing threat to human health posed by hazardous wastes. Non-binding declarations also make the link.
Human Health and the Environment - OECD.org
www.oecd.orgattempts to describe the major impacts on human health of environmental degradation and to estimate the associ-ated amount of health loss. A better understanding of the economic costs of environment-related health loss can help to inform environmental policy design. ... Intensive agricultural production uses chemicals in pesticides and ...
THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAMME
www.oecd.orghuman health and the environment. With thousands of new chemical products entering the global market every year, OECD countries agreed that a more comprehensive strategy was needed. The OECD therefore began developing harmonised, common tools that countries could use to test and assess the risks of new chemicals before they were manufactured
Human Health and the Environment - OECD
www.oecd.orgnatal), while in OECD countries health is lost primarily though the non-communicable (chronic, degenerative) dis-eases. In OECD countries conditions like heart disease and depression make up a major portion of the burden of disease. In non-OECD countries, diseases in children under four years old account for 50% of the total burden of