The Health and Environment Primer provides an introduction to European environmental health policy. The booklet sketches out basic environmental health concepts and maps out recent developments in the environment and health arena. It covers European policy developments in an accessible and approachable text that combines history with information about relevant organisations and web-page references. The primer is a resource to aid people can refer to find out about the important environment and health issues, and through which people can find out where to go to get involved on the issues.
Within the context of the WHO Budapest Ministerial Declaration on Environment and Health in June 2004, the follow-up Inter-governmental review held in 2007, and the new European Commission Action Plan on Environment and Health 2004-2010, this guide consolidates major policy developments with an eye to positively moving forward into the next five-year policy cycle.
The booklet is aimed at policy-makers in the health and environmental sectors, including politicians, NGOs, academics, local authorities, women’s and youth groups, and those working in the health sector, including health ministries, hospitals and health care centres, and health professionals and carers, patient and European citizen’s groups.
The Environment and Health Primer was written by the Health and Environment Alliance with input on key health issues by members of the EPHA Secretariat.
