Environmental Threats to the Health of Children : The Asian Perspective

By Carpenter, David O.

Book Id: WPLBN0000236609
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.1 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Environmental Threats to the Health of Children : The Asian Perspective
Author:	Carpenter, David O.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, United Nations., United Nations. Office for Disarmament Affairs
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Disarmament Documents
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Publisher:	United Nations- Office for Disarmament Affairs (Unoda)


Citation APA MLA Chicago Carpenter, D. O. (n.d.). Environmental Threats to the Health of Children : The Asian Perspective. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

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Government Reference Publication

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Excerpt: In Asia, as in the rest of the world, there are serious and significant effects on the health of children arising from environmental contamination. On 9?11 April 2000, the first biannual meeting on Environmental Threats to the Health of Children in the Asian Pacific was held in Manila, Republic of the Philippines, with over 120 attendees representing 15 countries. The goal of the conference was to bring to light the specific environmental conditions existing in the Western Pacific Basin countries that are affecting the health of children living in these countries and to raise awareness of the special vulnerability of children to degradation of the environment. Through open discussion the meeting fostered both an increased visibility of existing programs directed to environmental threats to the health of children within the different governments in the region and promotion of regional cooperation on the issue.