2004-2007 EC co-funded WHO project ENHIS

EC co-funded WHO project “Environmental Health Information System (ENHIS)” / EC-kofinanziertes Projekt “Informationssystem für Umwelt und Gesundheit”

1 Nov 2004 – 31 Oct 2007 [07-29]

ENHIS website: “ENHIS is an evidence-based information system aiming to support public health and environmental policies in the WHO European Region. The system is an interactive database, composed of country-level indicators and regional assessments (fact sheets). The fact sheets also include information on how data is obtained and how the indicators are calculated. ENHIS indicators provide information on exposures, health outcomes and policy actions related to the environment and health priority areas for the European Region known as Regional Priority Goals (RPGs)”, http://www.euro.who.int/en/data-and-evidence/environment-and-health-information-system-enhis [website: not freely accessible in 2021].

Project participants / Teilnehmende Institutionen:

  • Partner institutions (ca. 20), incl. Lögd NRW
  • Collaborating institutions (ca. 6)
  • Coordination and Management: WHO ECEH Bonn

Selected results / Ausgewählte Ergebnisse:

Dalbokova, D., Krzyzanowski, M., Lloyd, S. (eds.) (2007): Children’s health and the environment in Europe: A baseline assessment (125 pp.). Produced with > 100 contributors, incl. 4 from Lögd NRW (T. Claßen, R. Fehr, M. Mekel, S. Sierig), www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/96750/E90767.pdf [07-29]

WHO (2007): ENHIS fact sheet: “These 26 assessments, based on indicators for core environment and health issues, were prepared in 2007 by WHO/Europe and the partner institutions of the European Environment and Health Information System (ENHIS). They help describe the situation with children’s environmental health” (www.euro.who.int/en/data-and-evidence/environment-and-health-information-system-enhis/publications/pre-2009/archived-enhis-fact-sheets-2007):

  • Outbreaks of waterborne diseases (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 1.1)
  • Public water supply and access to improved water sources (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 1.2)
  • Wastewater treatment and access to improved sanitation (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 1.3)
  • Bathing water quality (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 1.4)
  • Mortality from road traffic injuries in children and young people (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 2.1)
  • Mortality in children and adolescents from unintentional injuries (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 2.2)
  • Prevalence of excess body weight and obesity in children and adolescents (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 2.3)
  • Policies to promote safe mobility and transport for children (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 2.5)
  • Policies to reduce unintentional injuries from falls, drowning, poisoning, fires and choking in children and adolescents (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 2.6)
  • Policies to reduce and prevent excess body weight and obesity in children and adolescents (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 2.7)
  • Prevalence of asthma and allergies in children (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 3.1)
  • Infant mortality from respiratory diseases (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 3.2)
  • Exposure of children to outdoor air pollution (particulate matter) (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 3.3)
  • Exposure of children to enviromental tobacco smoke (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 3.4)
  • Children living in homes with problems of dampness (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 3.5)
  • Proportion of children living in homes using solid fuel (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 3.6)
  • Policies to reduce the exposure of children to environmental tobacco smoke (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 3.7)
  • Incidence of childhood leukaemia (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 4.1)
  • Incidence of melanoma in people aged under 55 years (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 4.2)
  • Persistent organic pollutants (POP) in human milk (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 4.3)
  • Exposure of children to chemical hazards in food (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 4.4)
  • Levels of lead in children’s blood (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 4.5)
  • Radon levels in dwellings (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 4.6)
  • Work injuries in children and young people (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 4.7)
  • Policies to reduce the excessive exposure of children to ultraviolet radiation (ENHIS 2007 fact sheet 4.8)

(Rev. 28 Feb 2021)

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