Additional Children’s Environmental Health Related Material/Publications ‘Childhood Pesticide Poisoning’ In 2004, UNEP, WHO, and FAO published a booklet on ‘Childhood Pesticide Poisoning’, which provides information and advocacy directed at reducing pesticide poisoning and addressing its effects on women and children. Children are often more vulnerable than adults to the effects of pesticides as a result of several risk factors. These include their smaller size; greater rates of exposure to food, soil, water, and air; differing metabolism; and rapidly growing and developing organ systems. They tend to explore their immediate environment more than adults do and to put things in their mouths. Inexperience, lack of maturity, illiteracy and an inability to assess risk make children more likely to accidentally ingest pesticides. Children who work around pesticides face additional opportunities to be severely poisoned. Because children are at greater risk, they need greater protection. More awareness-raising is needed about risks, especially from the most acutely toxic pesticides, since adverse effects on children are completely preventable. Childhood Lead Poisoning: Information for Advocacy and Action’ In 1997, UNEP’s New York Office produced a booklet with UNICEF on ‘Childhood Lead Poisoning: Information for Advocacy and Action’

In Focus Children in the New Millennium: Environmental Impact on Health  CEH Initiatives Activities with direct bearing on CEH issues CEH related meetings Additional CEH related materials/publiciations Related Links HECAnet-Past issues Using Indicators to Measure Progress on Children's Environmental Health "

‘Domestic Environment and Health of Women and Children’

In 1999, UNEP’s Headquarters published on a book entitled ‘Domestic Environment and Health of Women and Children’ with the Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI).

This book is an assessment of the state of knowledge, contemporary situation, and status of scientific data that links domestic environmental parameters to the health of women. The book provides examples of how social and political backgrounds determine women’s activity and patterns at home and work, and how this consequently affects their health. The book recommends interventions and forwards arguments to modify the current environmental regulatory tools and policies to achieve sustainable health improvement for women and children.

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