EU News Service Offers 'Environment and Health' Issue

A special themed issue of Science for Environment Policy focusing on Environment and Health is now available to download, free, from http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/18si.pdf. This issue explores the effects of the environment on health and provides an essential guide for decision makers. The articles explore such topics as:
  • What are the effects of climate change on public health?
  • Why should we be concerned about indoor air pollution?
  • How can we develop effective and ethical human biomonitoring programs?

Science for Environment Policy is a free news service designed to strengthen links between environmental research and policy. Environment and Health is the eighteenth in a series of special thematic issues that take an in-depth look at issues high on the policy agenda.

It is guest-edited by Ludwine Casteleyn, M.D., of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium.