International Standards & Practice Guidelines (IS&Gs)
- WHO-UNEP Health and Environment Linkages Initiative
—Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production– Priority Products and Materials (Summary p82) - Environmental health topics
- Children’s environmental health programs
—Healthy Environments for Children Alliance - Quantifying environmental health impacts programs
- 10 facts on preventing disease through healthy environments
- Climate change topics
- Livestock’s long shadow: environmental issues and options
—Livestock a major threat to environment - Environmental pollution topics
- Air pollution topics
- Indoor air pollution topics
—Indoor air pollution Fact Sheets - Chemical safety topics
—International Programme on Chemical Safety - Health-care waste topics
- Ionizing radiation programs
- Ultraviolet radiation programs
Missions Specific Best Practices Documents
(Demonstrate Compliance with International Standards & Guidelines)
I. FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION (FBO) OPEN-ACCESS DOCUMENTS/RESOURCES:|
A. Christian Medical Association of India (CMAI) Publications
Christian Medical Journal of India (CMJI)—Numerous articles, some contain no references to IS&Gs but appear to demonstrate compliance:
—Our World, Our Health
B. Contact Publication of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and former Christian Medical Commission (CMC). Includes numerous articles demonstrating FBO work in the establishment as well as promotion of IS&Gs.
—Environment and health: Making the connection
II. SECULAR OPEN-ACCESS DOCUMENTS:
A. The Lancet Global Health Series:
—Energy and Health 2007
Global Health Commissions:
—Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health 2015
—Household Air Pollution Commission 2014
B. New England Journal of Medicine Global Health See especially:
—Global Health: Globalization, Climate Change, and Human Health 2013
—Global Climate Change and Infectious Diseases 2010
Updated: Mar 2017