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HECANET August-September 2005 HECANET August-September 2005 ======A Service Provided for HECA by UNEP in THIS ISSUE HECANET August-September 2005 HECANET August-September 2005 ================ A service provided for HECA by UNEP IN THIS ISSUE EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES * To reflect activities in the next issue of HECANET send information to [email protected] (1) HECA Developments (2) Outcome of the 2005 World Summit (3) IPA/WHO/UNEP Workshop for African Pediatricians on Children’s Health and the Environment (4) WHO session on "Children's Health and the Environment - Educating for a healthier future" at the 3rd World Environmental Education Congress (5) New IFCS Video on Persistent Organic Pollutants: “Protecting Children” (6) Second International Conference on Children's Environmental Health: Healthy Environments Healthy Children: Increasing Knowledge and Taking Action (7) Workshop on Advances in the Use of Biomarkers in Children. (8) International Network on Children's Health, Environment and Safety (INCHES) (9) Policy Interpretation Network on Children's Health and Environment (PINCHE) (10) International Society of Doctors for the Environment Latin America/Argentinean Society of Doctors for the Environment (11) CEC report on indicators of children's health and environment in North America (12) The Canadian Partnership for Children's Health and Environment (CPCHE) (13) Mount Sinai School of Medicine and PEHSU Valencia: Curso Internacional De Formación On-Line En Salud Ambiental Pediátrica (14) The University of Kansas Medical Center- Mid-America Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU) (15) University of Minnesota President's 21st Century Interdisciplinary Conference Series Promoting Healthy Communities for Children (16) Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment: Conference on Children’s Health and the Environment (17) Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) 8th Sustainable Development Conference (SDC - 2005) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF ARTICLES With the attention focused on the 2005 World Summit held at UN Headquarters in New York, the environment and health related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were put in the spotlight, hence the number of articles related to water and sanitation this month. Added to this were a number of events with health and environment implications, including the hurricances that devasted the southern states of the US, which in turn amplified discussions in the media related to climate change. There were also quite a few articles related to outdoor air pollution, including specific studies that considered the links between traffic/particulate pollution and the poor development of childrens' lungs and rates of childhood asthma. The focus was also on the unhealthy smoky haze that shrouded parts of Southeast Asia this month due to forest fires, forcing schools to close. With regard to chemicals and child health, the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, which will provide a framework for global action on chemical hazards and enable governments and other stakeholders to collaborate more effectively on minimizing potential risks was being finalized at an intergovernmental meeting. A study by Greenpeace and WWF which found that chemicals in perfumes and cleaning products can cross the placenta and reach the baby in the womb attracted quite some media attention, as did a European Parliament decision to approve a ban on the plasticizer chemicals used in children’s soft plastic toys signals. There continued to be a large number of articles dealing with childhood lead poisoning, particularly in North America, but there were also interesting articles related to decreasing lead levels in Chinese children, Uganda’s move to ban leaded fuel, and the continued exposure of Roma gypsies in refugee camps to lead file:///H|/HECA/Website/HECANET/HECANET%20Aug-Sept05webf.htm (1 of 21)2006-01-27 12:45:28 HECANET August-September 2005 from disused smelting operations. Meanwhile, another article dealt with the worserning health of children in certain Pakistani villages and their parents’ belief that it is caused by pesticides and their widespread misuse. There were quite a few articles that discussed exceptions in new EPA rules regarding testing pesticides on children, and the narrow defeat in the US Senate of an attempt to repeal a regulation that gives utilities until 2018 to reduce emissions of mercury, a contaminant that has been linked to birth defects and mental retardation. Other mercury articles dealt with the link between fish consumption and concentrations of methylmercury mercury, and vaccines and autism. Also in the US, researchers launched the biggest study of children, in which they hope to determine the causes of many common diseases like autism and diabetes. The study will follow 100,000 U.S. children from birth through adulthood. Scientists will try to find out whether there is a link between environment and diseases. Summaries of articles grouped under the following themes appear below, with links to their full texts: (1) AIR POLLUTION: (a) Indoor air pollution, (b) Outdoor air pollution (c) Asthma (d) Environmental Tobacco Smoke/Smoking (2) CHEMICALS: (a) General, (b) Lead, (c) Pesticides, (d) Mercury (3) WATER AND SANITATION (4) MISCELLANOUS (a) Global (b) Climate Change (c) Americas (d) Asia (e) Middle East (f) Europe ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Healthy Environments for Children Alliance (HECA) is a world-wide alliance to reduce environmental risks to children’s health that arise from the settings where they live, learn, play, and sometimes work, by providing knowledge, increasing political will, mobilizing resources, and catalysing intense and urgent action. HECANET is an international mailing list dedicated to promoting healthy environments for children. The list provides updates on the activities of the Healthy Environments for Children Alliance (HECA) and its members, as well as an overview of media coverage of children’s environmental health issues and relevant meetings, research findings and information and advocacy resources. * Past Issues * Subscribe ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES (1) HECA Developments Representatives from HECA-supported projects in Central African Republic, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda will participate in the training workshop on children's health and the environment that will be hosted by UNEP at its Headquarters in Nairobi from 12-14 October 2005 and organized in collaboration with the International Pediatric Association (IPA) and WHO (http:// www.ipa-world.org/init_envi.asp). HECA project representatives will also participate in a workshop on Children's Environmental Health Indicators that will take place on 11 October, also at UNEP Headquarters (http://www.who.int/ceh/ indicators/en/). These two workshops will strengthen the knowledge base on CEH issues among HECA project teams, and help build national capacities to address children's environmental health in countries and monitor results of their efforts. Summaries of HECA-supported pilot projects, action plans, monitoring and evaluation frameworks and progress reports are now available for a number of countries on the HECA website. A different project will be spotlighted in each month's HECANET. This month's spotlight is on the HECA supported project being carried out by the Division of the Environmental Health of the Ministry of Health in Kenya. The objective of the project is to reduce the burden of disease from diarrhoeal diseases among children through settings-based environmental health improvements. A baseline survey of CEH issues, health status and knowledge of personal and environmental hygiene has been carried out and a number of activities initiated to promote personal and environmental hygiene in schools and communities, and to promote safe drinking water in homes and schools. For a progress report to date, and other materials from the project see the HECA website. file:///H|/HECA/Website/HECANET/HECANET%20Aug-Sept05webf.htm (2 of 21)2006-01-27 12:45:28 HECANET August-September 2005 The HECA Secretariat at WHO Headquarters and the WHO Regional Office for Africa are organizing an inter-regional consultation on "Improving Children's Environmental Health in Settings - Experiences and lessons for policies and action" in Entebbe, Uganda from 29 November to 2 December 2005. The objective of the meeting, which will bring together representatives from a number of HECA-supported pilot projects, is to identify and capitalize on the strengths of settings- based action to address environmental risks to children's health. The outcome will be used to move forward with HECA and other similar projects/programmes aimed at improving children's environmental health and using this to replicate and/or scale up actions. For more information contact the HECA Secretariat. (2) Outcome of the 2005 World Summit The 2005 World Summit Outcome document, adopted by Heads of State and Government, who gathered at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 14 to 16 September 2005, contains a number of paragraphs which are of direct relevance to children’s environmental health issues. Below are a few select quotes: “We reaffirm that development is a central goal by itself and that sustainable development in its economic, social and environmental aspects constitutes a key element of the overarching framework of United Nations activities”. (para.10). “We are committed to creating a world fit for future generations, which takes into account
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