Recognition that the environment in which people live - from the household to the community to the global level - significantly affects their health, has only recently suggested the global burden of disease, indicating that premature death, and illness due to major environmental health risks, accounts for one-fifth of the disease burden in the developing world. Yet, in developed countries, environmental risk factors contribute to less than five percent...
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Environment, health and poverty
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environmental health
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Lvovsky,Kseniya.
Environment, health and poverty (English). Environment Strategy Notes ; No. 1 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/885411468762598652