Health and Environment in Sustainable Development - Five Years after the Earth Summit (WHO, 1997, 258 pages): Annex A: Country groupings by development and by geographic region

Health and Environment in Sustainable Development - Five Years after the Earth Summit (WHO, 1997, 258 pages)

		(introduction...)
		Message from the Director-General
		About this book
		Abbreviations and acronyms
		Units of measurements
		Chapter 1: A new perspective on health
		Chapter 2: Driving forces behind current health-and-environment trends
		Chapter 3: Major human activities affecting environmental quality
		Chapter 4: Poor environmental quality, exposures and risks
		Chapter 5: Health conditions in an environmental context
		Chapter 6: Integrated policies, strategies and actions: progress since the earth summit
		Chapter 7: Conclusions
		Glossary
		References
		Annex A: Country groupings by development and by geographic region
		Annex B: Countries providing data for WHO/UNICEF (1996a)
		Environmental health contact points in WHO Regional Offices and WHO Environmental Health Regional Technical Centres

Annex A: Country groupings by development and by geographic region

Abbreviations:

UN Classification by Development Level:

DCO = developing countries other than LDC
DME = developed market economies
EIT = economies in transition
LDC = least developed countries

WHO Regions (based on geography):

AFR = Region for Africa
AMR = Region for the Americas
EMR = Region for the Eastern Mediterranean
EUR = Region for Europe
SEAR = Region for South-East Asia
WPR = Region for the western Pacific

World Bank Regions (based on development level and geography):

EME = established market economies
FSE = formerly socialist economies of Europe
LAC = Latin America and the Caribbean
MEC = Middle Eastern Crescent
OAI = Other Asia and islands
SSA = sub-Saharan Africa
CHI = China
IND = India

UN Regions (based on geography):

Africa
Asia
Europe
Latin America
North America
Oceania