WHO Housing and Health Guidelines
Title | WHO Housing and Health Guidelines PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 149 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789241550376 |
Improved housing conditions can save lives, prevent disease, increase quality of life, reduce poverty, and help mitigate climate change. Housing is becoming increasingly important to health in light of urban growth, ageing populations and climate change. The WHO Housing and health guidelines bring together the most recent evidence to provide practical recommendations to reduce the health burden due to unsafe and substandard housing. Based on newly commissioned systematic reviews, the guidelines provide recommendations relevant to inadequate living space (crowding), low and high indoor temperatures, injury hazards in the home, and accessibility of housing for people with functional impairments. In addition, the guidelines identify and summarize existing WHO guidelines and recommendations related to housing, with respect to water quality, air quality, neighbourhood noise, asbestos, lead, tobacco smoke and radon. The guidelines take a comprehensive, intersectoral perspective on the issue of housing and health and highlight co-benefits of interventions addressing several risk factors at the same time. The WHO Housing and health guidelines aim at informing housing policies and regulations at the national, regional and local level and are further relevant in the daily activities of implementing actors who are directly involved in the construction, maintenance and demolition of housing in ways that influence human health and safety. The guidelines therefore emphasize the importance of collaboration between the health and other sectors and joint efforts across all government levels to promote healthy housing. The guidelines' implementation at country-level will in particular contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals on health (SDG 3) and sustainable cities (SDG 11). WHO will support Member States in adapting the guidelines to national contexts and priorities to ensure safe and healthy housing for all.
Warm and Cold
Title | Warm and Cold PDF eBook |
Author | David Mamet |
Publisher | Grove/Atlantic |
Pages | 62 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780802110848 |
A poetic depiction of what keeps you warm when it is cold, from good clothes and steam to the sound of talk and the love that you keep with you wherever you go.
Cold Hands, Warm Heart
Title | Cold Hands, Warm Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Wolfson |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2009-03-31 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1429938315 |
Dani was born with her heart on the wrong side of her body. In her fifteen years of life, she's had more doctor's appointments, X-rays, and tests, and eaten more green hospital Jell-O than she cares to think about. Fourteen-year-old Amanda is a competitive gymnast, her body a small package of sleek muscles, in perfect health. The two girls don't know each other, don't go to the same school, don't have any friends in common. But their lives are about to collide. Acclaimed author Jill Wolfson tackles this fascinating story with her trademark honesty and wit.
Too Hot? Too Cold?
Title | Too Hot? Too Cold? PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Arnold |
Publisher | Charlesbridge |
Pages | 35 |
Release | 2013-02-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 160734596X |
Explains how people and animals living in different parts of the world survive in hotter and colder climates using remarkable adaptive strategies and behaviors.
Hot and Cold
Title | Hot and Cold PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Royston |
Publisher | Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781432914349 |
Explains the differences between hot and cold temperatures and how to measure temperature using a thermometer.
Nutritional Needs in Cold and High-Altitude Environments
Title | Nutritional Needs in Cold and High-Altitude Environments PDF eBook |
Author | Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 1996-05-15 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0309175593 |
This book reviews the research pertaining to nutrient requirements for working in cold or in high-altitude environments and states recommendations regarding the application of this information to military operational rations. It addresses whether, aside from increased energy demands, cold or high-altitude environments elicit an increased demand or requirement for specific nutrients, and whether performance in cold or high-altitude environments can be enhanced by the provision of increased amounts of specific nutrients.
Cold Paws, Warm Heart
Title | Cold Paws, Warm Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Madeleine Floyd |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN |
A kindhearted girl seeks out a solitary polar bear in a tender story of an unlikely friendship that is sure to warm even the coldest of hearts. Far away in the land of snow and ice lives Cold Paws, a lonely polar bear. With only his silver flute for company, Cold Paws shivers and wonders why he always feels cold inside. But when young Hannah from the nearby village makes friends with him, that chilliness inside Cold Paws begins to melt away. A woolly scarf, a game of jumping jacks, a mug of steaming hot chocolate -- what warm gesture will finally take the polar bear's icy feeling away for good?