Preventing disease through healthy environments : towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease / A. Prüss-Üstün and C. Corvalán.

Geneva : World Health Organization, [2006], ©2006.

104 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-101).

1. Introduction -- 2. What is the environment in the context of health? -- 3. What is meant by the "attributable fraction" of a risk factor? -- 4. Methods -- 5. Analysis of estimates of the environmental attributable fraction, by disease -- 6. Global results of the analysis -- 7. Conclusions -- Annex 1: WHO Member States -- Annex 2: Global statistics produced by the analysis of the environmental disease burden (Tables A2.1, A2.2 and A.2.3) -- Annex 2: Global statistics produced by the analysis of the environmental disease burden (Tables A2.4) -- References, acknowlegments, credits.