Common issues related to children’s environmental health in the Asia-Pacific region

Brittany A. Trottier; Daam Settachan

doi:10.1515/reveh-2019-0076

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Common issues related to children’s environmental health in the Asia-Pacific region

Brittany A. Trottier und Daam Settachan

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Abstract

This summary reports on the outcomes and common issues faced among the countries represented at the Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting on Children’s Environmental Health, a meeting that was held at the Chulabhorn Research Institute in Bangkok, Thailand, and which focused on cross-cutting issues and commonalities among countries/regions, discussion of lessons learnt, exploring opportunities for policy-relevant research collaborations, and reviewing available educational tools to help translate research findings into tangible outputs. The common children’s environmental health issues faced by countries in the Asia-Pacific region include indoor and outdoor air pollution; unregulated and inadequate waste management; chemical and infectious agents in water used for drinking and cooking; hazardous pesticide use; and climate change and extreme weather events. The meeting participants agreed there is a need for multisectoral involvement in each country to develop frameworks and guidelines, raising public awareness of risk, and managing exposures in order to tackle these common issues. Networking will allow countries to learn from each other and enhance their efforts to protect not only the health of children, but also that of the rest of the population at risk.

Keywords: Asia-Pacific region; children’s environmental health

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Gwen Collman, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Division of Extramural Research and Training, John Balbus, NIEHS senior advisor for public health and director of the NIEHS-WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Sciences, and William A Suk, director of the Superfund Research Program at NIEHS, for their continued support of global children’s environmental health issues.

Research funding: Partial funding was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for the meeting. The Chulabhorn Research Institute organized, hosted, and provided funding for the meeting. This manuscript is based on information presented at the meeting.
Conflict of interest: The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.
Informed consent: Not applicable.
Ethical approval: Not applicable.

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Received: 2019-10-21

Accepted: 2019-10-28

Published Online: 2020-03-07

Published in Print: 2020-03-26

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Asia-Pacific region; children’s environmental health