Study health impacts at community level
Tools provide guidance and supportive information for Member States to investigate the link between exposure and health impacts at the community level, including from pollution and contaminated sites.
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :
- WHO - Health impact assessment [accessed 2022]
- ILO/WHO/UNEP - Environmental Health Criteria 214: Human Exposure Assessment [2000]
- WHO - Burden of disease estimates: Mercury - Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels [2008]
- WHO - Artisanal and small-scale gold mining and health [2016]
- WHO - Assessment of prenatal exposure to mercury: human biomonitoring survey: The first survey protocol [2018]
- WHO - Assessment of prenatal exposure to mercury: standard operating procedures [2018]
- ILO: Exposure to Mercury in the world of work - A review of the evidence and key priority actions (2022)
- WHO - Human Health Risk Assessment Toolkit: Chemical Hazards, second edition [2021]
- eDLT - Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Chemicals: Electronic distance learning tool [2013]
- WHO - Manual for investigating suspected outbreaks of illnesses of possible chemical etiology: guidance for investigation and control [2021]