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Children and young people can be more sensitive to environmental influences on health than adults. This is because they have different levels and patterns of environmental exposures than adults, their biological systems and organs are still developing, and also as a result of their behaviour and lack of awareness of environmental hazards and risk.

At the World Health Organization鈥檚 (WHO) fourth Ministerial conference 鈥樆使谔逵齛pp future for our children鈥� in Budapest (2004) the WHO European Member States made a commitment to the Children鈥檚 Environment and Health Action Plan for Europe (CEHAPE). 皇冠体育app aim of the CEHAPE programme is to develop and implement national plans and policies to address local priorities to reduce the burden of disease among children caused by environmental risk factors.

皇冠体育app United Kingdom鈥檚 (UK) response has included the development of (i) a Children鈥檚 Environment and Health Strategy and Action Plan for the UK and (ii) this environmental health toolkit which will help with the delivery of the Strategy. 皇冠体育app programme entails developing a core set of environmental and health indicators to describe and characterise the burden of disease and hazards among children at a local authority level within Government Office Regions (GOR) of England and Wales.

Additional information

All relevant documents are available from the former Health Protection Agency website