Download Report: Toward the Tipping Point: WHO-HCWH Global Initiative to Substitute Mercury-Based Medical Devices in Health Care. A Two-Year Progress Report (pdf)
Download Report: End of an Era: The Phase-Out of Mercury Blood Pressure Devices (pdf)
Tools and Resources
Dealing With Mercury Spills
This video on safe disposal of spilled mercury was produced HCWH's Strategic Partner in South Asia, Toxics Link.
Websites
- Mercury Free Health Care,
A WHO-HCWH Global Initiative - UNEP Mercury Programme
- Zero Mercury Working Group
Model Policies
- WHO Policy on Mercury in Health Care (pdf)
- Argentina: Resolution of the Minister of Health (pdf)
- Buenos Aires: Declaration on Mercury-Free Health Care (pdf)
- European Union: Ban on Sale of Mercury-Measuring Instruments (pdf)
- Johannesburg: Declaration on Mercury-Free Health Care (pdf)
- Manilla: Declaration on Mercury-Free Health Care (pdf)
- New Delhi: Declaration on Mercury-Free Health Care (pdf)
- Philippines: Dept. of Health Administrative Order (pdf)
- Philippines: Dept. Interior and Local Government Memorandum (pdf)
Reports, Articles, and Guides
- Toward the Tipping Point: WHO-HCWH Global Initiative to Substitute Mercury-Based Medical Devices in Health Care. A Two-Year Progress Report (pdf)
- The End of an Era: The Phase Out of Mercury Blood Pressure Devices in the United States (pdf)
- The Global Movement for Mercury-Free Health Care Report (pdf)
- Report of the Southeast Asia Conference on Mercury in Health Care (pdf)
- World Medical Journal article on Mercury-Free Health Care (pdf)
- WHO: Affordable Technology: Blood Pressure Measuring Devices for Low Resource Settings (pdf)
- Lurking Menace: Mercury in the Health-Care Sector (pdf)
- Mercury-Free Blood Pressure Measurement Equipment: Experiences in the Swedish Healthcare Sector (pdf)
- Guide to Mercury-Free Alternatives in Southeast Asia (pdf)
- World Medical Association Statement on Reducing the Global Burden of Mercury (pdf)
