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WHO is a specialized agency of the UNITED NATIONS system, and is the leading technical agency on matters relating to public health, worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) has been providing technical assistance to the Government of the Peoples? Republic of Bangladesh for the development and strengthening of the country?s public health systems since 1972. WHO defines health "as a state of complete, physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". To realize the objective of attaining the highest possible level of health by all people, WHO has formulated a corporate strategy comprised of seven strategic directions and six core functions, which provide a broad framework for focusing WHO's collaboration with countries. In addition, a six-year Medium-term Strategic Plan based on thirteen strategic objectives (SOs) has been developed for Bangladesh and other SEAR countries.
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Newmont pollution is all 'hanky-panky'.
- 2006-12-17
Byline: Morgan Mellish Dec 17, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A senior Indonesian public servant claims that Newmont executive, Richard Ness, is innocent of polluting Buyut Bay. In December 2006, Simon Sembiring, Director-General of the Ministry of Mines...
World Health Experts Warn Air Pollution Kills Two Million a Year
- 2006-10-06
NEW YORK, New York ENS — --> Air pollution in cities across the world is causing some two million premature deaths every year, the World Health Organization WHO said Thursday, urging nations to adopt stricter air pollution standards. The international health agency's new air quality guidelines call for nations to...
'Fuel for life': household energy and health
- 2006-07-01
INDOOR AIR POLLUTION FROM COOKING AND HEATING with solid fuels, including wood, dung and coal on open fires or traditional stoves, is responsible for at least 1.5 million deaths every year worldwide. Such pollution causes acute lower respiratory infections in children under five years of age and chronic obstructive pulmonary...
Air pollution in Europe cuts lives by up to ten months: WHO
- 2005-04-14
BERLIN AFP — The World Health Organization WHO warned that air pollution shortens lives in Europe by up to ten months and costs billions of euros dollars every year. The world body said particulate matter PM air pollution claimed an average of 8.6 months from the life of every...
European Youth Focus of Environmental Health Action Plan
- 2004-06-25
WASHINGTON, DC, ENS ? Air pollution affects the unborn, with damaging effects on children's health later in life, says an expert group of public health scientists from Europe and North America convened by the World Health Organization. The panel presented its findings to ministers of health and environment from...
WHO conference focuses on environmental hazards, child deaths
- 2004-06-23
BUDAPEST AFP ? European health and environment ministers warned of the deadly effects of pollution on millions of children and unborn babies, at a three-day conference. Top health officials of the World Health Organization WHO said 100,000 children die in Europe and Central Asia alone due to the ill-effects...
Cooking stoves pollute a third of the world's homes. Hugh Warwick breaks the silence of the killer in the kitchen
- 2004-04-01
If you had a magic wand, where would you wave it first? Okay, let's be specific. If your magic wand could help to alleviate the woes of the world--rather than your own bank balance and other imperfections--what would you wave it at? Would the cooking fires of the poorest people...
Type II partnerships in the transport context: Fulfilling our promises, making the dream a reality?
- 2003-04-01
I. INTRODUCTIONAir pollution from transport, especially motor vehicles, is a serious environmental problem around the world, particularly in the "megacities," where populations are clustered and dense, and where vehicle ownership and use is excessive.1 Many of these cities far exceed World Health Organization WHO Air Quality Guidelines, and government officials...
WMC fined $A50,000.
- 2002-08-04
Aug 04, 2002 The West Australian ABIX via COMTEX -- WMC has been fined $A50,000 for allowing its Western Australian WA nickel smelter to cause pollution. In March 1994, WMC was given two years to fix the smelter after the WA Government discovered that...
Exposition on skepticism. (Books).~(book review)
- 2002-03-01
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. Bjorn Lomborg. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2001. 540 pp., $28.00 (ISBN 0-521-010683 paper). Bjorn Lomborg discusses a wide range of topics in his book and implies, through the book's title, that he will inform readers exactly what...
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