Summary of the 2016 World Health Organization Report and 2021 Compendium on environmental diseases

Abstract

The report written by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2016 presents an extensive assessment to show how the improvement of the environment can promote health and well-being. The awareness of how many diseases could be avoided by focusing on environmental risk factors would give a boost to global efforts to promote preventive health. The results obtained by the quantitative analysis on the burden of diseases attributable to the environment, confirm that 24% of global deaths and 26% of deaths among children under 5 years are caused by modifiable environmental risk factors. For this reason, this report strongly supports the idea that the environment is a solid platform for good public, community and individual health. Furthermore, in 2021, WHO with the United Nations developed a Compendium, which provides strategies and key guidance for acting on environmental conditions as a key contributor to reducing many communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). In the following article we examined the environment-related diseases according to WHO paperwork.