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New features and documents on WHO website

Contributed by Fran Humber
Added: 08 June 2007

The WHO website now contains several new items on cooking and heating practices, indoor air pollution and CSD-15.

Information on cooking and heating practices

WHO has prepared a revised set of four questions on cooking practices and a stove card.

For more information please visit: http://www.who.int/indoorair/health_impacts/cooking/en/index.html

Click pdf file link here (21 KB) to download the survey questions on cooking practices

Click pdf file link here (121 KB) to download the stove card.

National burden of disease due to indoor air pollution

The national burden of disease due to indoor air pollution from solid fuel use was assessed for the year 2002. In addition to total deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) due to indoor air pollution, country-by-country estimates are also available for deaths due to acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) among children as well as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer among adults.

For more information please visit: http://www.who.int/indoorair/health_impacts/burden_national/en/index.html

Click pdf file link here (290 KB) to download the full assessment.

Household energy and health at CSD 15

Energy for sustainable development is the main theme of the 14th and 15th session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). The Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting (IPM) took place at the United Nations in New York from 26 February to 2 March 2007 at a technical level, deciding on policy recommendations for negotiations during CSD 15. The World Health Organization, jointly with the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Practical Action, the HEDON Household Energy Network, Winrock International and the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air, prepared a position statement for CSD 15.

Click pdf file link here (237 KB) to download the position statement in English.
Click pdf file link here (195 KB) to download the position statement in French.
Click pdf file link here (193 KB) to download the position statement in Spanish.

For more information on CSD15 on the WHO website please visit: http://www.who.int/indoorair/policy/hhhcsd15/en/index.html

Public Health and Environment
World Health Organization
1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
http://www.who.int/indoorair


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