TAILIEUCHUNG - Health effects of transport-related air pollution

Clean air is a basic requirement of life. The quality of air inside homes, offices, schools, day care centres, public buildings, health care facilities or other private and public buildings where people spend a large part of their life is an essential determinant of healthy life and people’s well-being. Hazardous substances emit- ted from buildings, construction materials and indoor equipment or due to hu- man activities indoors, such as combustion of fuels for cooking or heating, lead to a broad range of health problems and may even be fatal | The World Health Organization was established in 1948 as the specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for directing and coordinating authority for international health matters and public health. One of WHO s constitutional functions is to provide objective and reliable information and advice in the field of human health. It fulfils this responsibility in part through its publications programmes seeking to help countries make policies that benefit public health and address their most pressing public health concerns. The WHO Regional Office for Europe is one ofsix regional offices throughout the world each with its own programme geared to the particular health problems ofthe countries it serves. The European Region embraces some 870 million people living in an area stretching from the Arctic Ocean in the north and the Mediterranean Sea in the south and from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. The European programme ofWHO supports all countries in the Region in developing and sustaining their own health policies systems and programmes preventing and overcoming threats to health preparing for future health challenges and advocating and implementing public health activities. To ensure the widest possible availability of authoritative information and guidance on health matters WHO secures broad international distribution of its publications and encourages their translation and adaptation. By helping to promote and protect health and prevent and control disease WHO s books contribute to achieving the Organization s principal objective the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of health. EUROPE Health effects of transport-related air pollution Edited by Michal Krzyzanowski Birgit Kuna-Dibbert and Jurgen .

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