Global: Climate & Health Summit, Durban Dec 4, Save the Date
HCWH – The first Global Climate and Health Summit, takes place parallel to the COP 17 climate negotiations. It aims to bring together key health sector actors to discuss the impacts of climate change on public health and solutions that promote greater health, as well as economic equity between and within nations.  more

US: HCWH Launches Clean Air Promise Campaign
HCWH – HCWH has announced a new initiative to help support the Clean Air Act. Called the "Clean Air Promise", the campaign will target the health care community, legislators and policy makers, community and business leaders, and individuals, asking them to make a Promise to protect America's children and families from air pollution. The new campaign is part of a wider initiative by HCWH to defend the Clean Air Act, which has engaged nurses and other health care professionals to help draw attention to the health consequences of air pollution.  more

Philippines: City Resolution to Ensure Proper Disposal of Medical Waste
PIA – A resolution under discussion would ensure the proper disposal of medical, hazardous, infectious and toxic waste coming from all medical and health facilities and funeral homes in compliance with Republic Act No. 9003 or "Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000".  more

Philippines: DOH to Confiscate Mercury-loaded Whitening Creams
News Info – Local health authorities will inspect retail outlets to confiscate skin whitening products with high mercury content. The Department of Health (DOH) Food and Drug Authority issued for the recall of the 23 whitening products. Elizabeth Tabasa, DOH Central Visayas licensing, standards and regulation chief, said she met with their food and drug regulation officers yesterday and instructed them to check the stores selling the items.  more

Global: Climate Change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts
UNEP – The report Climate change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts provides a comprehensive view of the complex inter-linkages between climate and POPs. Significant climate-induced changes are foreseen in relation to future releases of POPs into the environment, their long-range transport and environmental fate, and human and environmental exposure, leading to higher health risks for both human populations and the environment.  more

Australia: Report States Effects of Climate Change on Health
Ulladulla – The Australian Climate Commission released a report that highlights key climate change impacts and opportunities. According to the report the case for action has never been more urgent and failing to take sufficient action today entails potentially huge risks to our environment, economy, society, health and way of life into the future.  more

US: Long-Term Health Effects of Environmental Factors Is Focus of New Study
Rochester online – How exposure to chemicals and other environmental factors from the earliest months of life – even before we are born – affect our long-term health is the subject of a new five-year study by a scientist at the University of Rochester Medical Center.  more

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