Reduce use of mercury in health care and manage waste
Tools provide guidance and supportive information for Member States to use WHO guidance to reduce the use of mercury in health care and manage mercury-contaminated wastes (in line with Articles 4, 10 and 11 of the Minamata Convention and resolution WHA67.11).
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :
- WHO - Mercury [accessed 2022]
- WHO - Mercury in health care: policy paper [2005]
- WHO - WHO resolution WHA67.11 (2014) - Public health impacts of exposure to mercury and mercury compounds: the role of WHO and ministries of public health in the implementation of the Minamata Convention [2014]
- UNDP - Guidance on the cleanup, temporary or intermediate storage, and transport of mercury waste from healthcare facilities [2015]
- WHO - Strategic planning for implementation of the health-related articles of the Minamata Convention on Mercury [2019]
- WHO - Developing national strategies for phasing out mercury-containing thermometers and sphygmomanometers in health care [2015]
- WHO - Affordable Technology: Blood pressure measuring devices for low resource settings [2005]
- UNEP - Promoting the phase down of dental amalgam in developing countries [2014]
- WHO - Prevention and treatment of dental caries with mercury-free products and minimal intervention [2022]
- UNEP - Mercury Programme [accessed 2022]
- UNEP - Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Mercury Releases [2019]
- UNEP/Basel Convention - Technical Guidelines for the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of elemental mercury and wastes containing or contaminated with mercury [2015]