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close this bookHealth and Environment in Sustainable Development - Five years after the Earth Summit (WHO, 1997, 258 pages)
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View the documentMessage from the Director-General
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Open this folder and view contentsChapter 1: A new perspective on health
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Open this folder and view contentsChapter 5: Health conditions in an environmental context
Open this folder and view contentsChapter 6: Integrated policies, strategies and actions: progress since the earth summit
View the documentChapter 7: Conclusions
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View the documentAnnex A: Country groupings by development and by geographic region
View the documentAnnex B: Countries providing data for WHO/UNICEF (1996a)
View the documentEnvironmental health contact points in WHO Regional Offices and WHO Environmental Health Regional Technical Centres

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World Health Organization
Geneva 1997

Further copies of this report can be obtained from:
Office of Global and Integrated Environmental Health (EHG),
World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.

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