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Preventing disease through healthy environments: a global assessment of the burden of disease from environmental risks

Prüss-Ustün, A.; J. Wolf, C. Corvalán, et al. World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

The main message emerging from this new comprehensive global assessment is that premature death and disease can be prevented through healthier environments – and to a significant degree. Analysing the latest data on the environment-disease nexus and the devastating impact of environmental hazards ... more

The Manifesto to Secure a Healthy Planet for All – A Call for Emergency Action | InterAction Council

International Action Council (2019) C2

The Manifesto was launched at a High Level Event in London on the 31st July 2019, where Emergency response mechanisms to address the Climate and Environmental Crisis are being explored. The Manifesto has been developed in response to the increasing international and United Nations evidence and under ... more

Activity book – Healthy plants, healthy planet

Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (2020) CC

This activity book has been designed, written and illustrated to bring children and young people closer to the world of plant protection; the science that deals with plant health. Although addressed to an age group between eight and twelve years, this book can also be useful for older kids and educa ... more

Nation healthy cities networks

World Health Organization - Regional Office for Europe (2015) C_WHO

Promoting health and well-being throughout Europe

Philippines: A Training Manual for Health Workers on Healthy Lifestyle - Promoting Healthy Diet and Nutrition (Module 3/6)

WHO and DOH Philippines (2009) C_WHO

ART and quality of life: side effects and your long-term health

i-base (2017) C2

Pocket size March 2017

How to … provide tasty, healthy and environmentally friendly hospital meals

Steinbach I. (2009) CC

A guide for hospital trusts' hotel services, procurement teams and caterers to provide more sustainable food.

Philippines: A Training Manual for Health Workers on Healthy Lifestyle - Promoting Physical Activity (Module 4/6)

WHO and DOH Philippines (2009) C_WHO

Influencing food environments for healthy diets

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO (2016) C2

Food environments are usually defined as the settings with all the different types of food made available and accessible to people as they go about their daily lives. That is, the range of food in supermarkets, small retail outlets, wet markets, street food stalls, coffee shops, tea houses, s ... chool canteens, restaurants, and all the other venues where people buy and eat food. These environments differ enormously depending on the context. They can be extensive and diverse, with a seemingly endless array of options and price ranges, or they can be sparse, with very few options on offer. Because they determine what food consumers can access at a given moment in time, at what price, and with what degree of convenience, food environments both constrain and prompt the consumer’s choice.Food environments are influenced by the food systems which supply them, and vice versa. Food systems encompass the entire range of activities, people and institutions involved in the production, processing, marketing, consumption and disposal of food (FAO, 2013). They include but are not limited to food supply chains. Making food systems nutrition-sensitive can contribute to addressing all forms of malnutrition, as food systems determine whether the food needed for good nutrition are available, affordable, acceptable and of adequate quantity and quality. How closely food systems and food environments are interrelated and interdependent, and the degree to which external factors affect nutrition outcomes, varies from setting to setting.Many of today’s food systems and food environments are challenged in supporting consumer choices that are consistent with healthy diets and good nutrition. Consumers are not making choices based on nutrition and health, and poor diet is now the number one risk factor for death and disability worldwide (GBD, 2015). Food systems that do not enable healthy diets are increasingly recognized as an underlying cause of malnutrition (GLOPAN, 2016), and malnutrition, irrespective of form, has a huge cost. Economic costs associated with undernutrition are estimated at $1-2 trillion per year, about 2-3% of global GDP (FAO, 2013); the global economic cost of obesity and associated diet-related non-communicable diseases is estimated at $2 trillion per year, about 2.8% of global GDP (McKinsey, 2014). Influencing food environments for promoting healthy diets is an emerging strategy to address today’s nutrition challenges. more

Children face unique vulnerabilities to environmental hazards at every stage of life

UNICEF (2025) C_UNICEF

Fragile Beginnings. The Fragile Beginnings series examines the growing body of research on the unique vulnerabilities of children: in utero and at birth, during infancy and childhood and throughout adolescence. Its purpose is to enable evidence-based advocacy and action on children’s environmental ... more

Health-Related Quality of Life of Nigerian Children with Cerebral Palsy

Bosede Abidemi Tella, Caleb Ademola Gbiri, Oluwaseyi Abigail Osho, A E Ogunrinu Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development Journal (DCIDJ) (2011) CC

This article aims to assess the impact of cerebral palsy on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of Nigerian children.

Community dialogues for healthy children: encouraging communities to talk

Malaria Consortium (2014)

Integrated community case management (ICCM) – an approach where community-based health workers are trained to identify, treat and refer children under-five with pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria – is increasingly being used across sub-Saharan Africa to supplement the gaps in basic healthcare prov ... more

Philippines: A Training Manual for Health Workers on Healthy Lifestyle - Promoting Mental Health (Module 6/6)

WHO and DOH Philippines (2009) C_WHO

Aleppo’s Reality: Daily Life under Barrel Bombs

Médecins sans Frontières (2015)

Voices from Eastern Aleppo. A Compilation of Testimonies Illustrating the Hardships of Daily Life in Eastern Aleppo under Barrel Bombings, through the Eyes of Local Residents

WHO Manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Prescriptions and Actionables for a Healthy and Green Recovery. The practical steps outlined in this report aim at creating a healthier, fairer and greener world while investing to maintain and resuscitate the economy hit by the effects of COVID-1 ... more

My Future is My Choice - Life Skills Training for Young people

UNIFEC; Government of Sweden; UNAIDS; AIDS Care Trust of Namibia (2019)

Information for Parents Accessed: 13.10.2019

Compendium of tools, resources and networks on Place: WHO European Healthy Cities Network Phase VII Support Package for Implementation (2020)

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

In 2018, the WHO European Healthy Cities Network adopted the political vision of the Network until 2030 that is fully aligned with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: the Copenhagen Consensus of Mayors: Healthier and Happier ... more

Chapter 18 Resilience Management for Healthy Cities in a Changing Climate

Elmqvist, T.; Gatzweiler F., Lindgren E., et al. (2019) C1

Nursing Care at the End of Life

Lowey, S.E. (2015) CC

What every clinician should know

Sierra Leone Food-Based Dietary Guidelines for Healthy Eating

Ministry of Health and Sanitation Sierra Leone, Food and Agriculture Organization of the Unieted Nations, German Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (2016) C1