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Amélioration des conditions d’hygiène de l’environnement dans les habitats pour faibles revenus: Comment définir besoins et priorités au niveau communautaire
(1989)
La présente publication se propose d'aider les communautés a se procurer des informations sur les facteurs écologiques qui affectent leur santé dans leurs zones de résidence. Elles pourront ainsi repérer leurs propres ...
Environmental Impact Assessment: An Analysis of the Methodological and Substantive Issues Affecting Human Health Considerations - MARC Report Number 41
(1987)
A principal mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) is the promotion of procedures and approaches to planning by governments that can contribute to the improvement of the standard of human health. One of the major ...
Cadmium in the European Community: A Prospective Assessment of Sources, Human Exposure and Environmental Impact – MARC Report Number 26
(1982)
This study quantifies the sources of cadmium in the European Community (EC), reviews the concentrations found in the physical environment and its biotic components, and assesses current and future human exposure in the ...
The State of the Environment 1980: Selected Topics
(1980)
The present annual state of the environment report deals with five topics of international significance selected by the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme at its seventh session: carbon dioxide ...
The State of the Environment 1986: Environment and Health
(1986)
This report aims to show that the achievement of sustained development, the promotion of health, and the rational use of the environmental resources are absolutely inseparable. Disregard one and, sooner or later, the other ...
Dimethyl Phthalate - Scientific Reviews of Soviet Literature on Toxicity and Hazards of Chemicals 24
(Centre of International Projects, GKNT, 1982)
Information carried by the review is in line with the data profile structure elaborated by the International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals. The series is intended for toxicologists, higienists and all those ...
Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution (GESAMP): The Review of the Health of the Oceans - GESAMP Reports and Studies No. 15
(1982)
Although the idea of summarizing the state of marine pollution in the world oceans is probably much older than one might imagine, the specific idea of reviewing the health of the oceans seems to have first arisen in the ...
Radiofrequency and Microwaves - Environmental Health Criteria 16
(1981)
Microwave and radiofrequency (RE) radiation constitute part of the whole electromagnetic spectrum. This document is concerned
with frequencies lying between 105 and 3 × 1011 Hz (100 kHz and 300 GHz). The term radiofrequency ...
Arsenic - Environmental Health Criteria 18
(1981)
Arsenic is a ubiquitous element with metalloid properties. Its chemistry is complex and there are many different compounds of both inorganic and organic arsenic. In nature, it is widely distributed in a number of minerals, ...
Manganese - Environmental Health Criteria 17
(1981)
Manganese, Mn (atomic number Z = 25; relative atomic mass A r = 54.938) is an element of the VIIb group of the periodic table of elements, together with technetium and rhenium. It belongs to 16 the first series of d-block ...