Title: Children’s Health in Latin America: The Influence of Environmental Exposures

Conclusions: To control environmental threats to children’s health in Latin America, WHO, including PAHO will focus on the most highly prevalent and serious hazards – indoor and outdoor air pollution, water pollution, and toxic chemicals. Strategies for controlling these hazards include developing tracking data on regional trends in children’s environmental health (CEH); building a network of Collaborating Centres; promoting biomedical research in CEH; building regional capacity; supporting development of evidence-based prevention policies; studying the economic costs of chronic diseases in children; and developing platforms for dialogue with relevant stakeholders.
Source: EHP Research - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tags: Review Source Type: research