Children's Environmental Health Award 2010: "Protecting children's health in a changing environment"

Working towards the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in Parma, Italy, 10-12 March 2010

01.09.2009 | WECF Event

Countries:	Italy
Donors:	Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Austria; Ministry of the Environment, Sweden; Danish Ministry of the Environment; Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM), The Netherlands
Partners:	HEAL, ISDE Austria, EcoForum
Issues:	Chemicals & Health
Duration:	09/2009 - 04/2010

More than ever, children's health is at risk from a changing environment. In 2004, Ministers of Health and Environment of countries in the European, Caucasus and Central Asian region signed the “Children Environmental and Health Action Plan for Europe” (CEHAPE). Three years later, a competition of children's environmental health projects resulted in the successful "Good Practice Awards" celebration.

At the Conference of Ministers, entitled “Protecting Children’s Health in a Changing Environment”, eight new good practice projects were awarded and invited to present their projects at the Ministerial Conference in Italy.

The health impacts of environmental risk factors - inadequate water and sanitation, unsafe home and recreational environments, lack of spatial planning for physical activity, indoor and outdoor air pollution, and hazardous chemicals - are amplified by recent developments such as financial constraints, broader socioeconomic and gender inequalities and more frequent extreme climate events. They pose new challenges for health systems to reduce deaths and diseases through effective environmental health interventions.

The Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, organized by WHO/Europe and hosted by Italy, was the next milestone in the European environment and health process, in 2010 in its twentieth year. Focused on protecting children's health in a changing environment, the Conference drove Europe's agenda on emerging environmental health challenges for the years to come.

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