Improving environmental health monitoring

Agenda 21 recommends the establishment of adequate environmental monitoring capacities for surveillance of environmental quality and health status of populations. This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Upgrading
2. Surveying health issues
3. Implementing environmental health strategy
4. Developing methods that safeguard environmental quality
5. Developing health indicators
6. Improving
7. Undertaking environmental monitoring and assessments

1. Reviewing advances in medical technology
2. Monitoring pollution by nuclear reactors
3. Monitoring food quality
4. Monitoring exposure to hazardous environmental pollutants
5. Monitoring air quality
6. Monitoring adverse effects of hazardous wastes
7. Establishing criteria for monitoring forest resources
8. Assessing water quality
9. Assessing health impacts of climate change
10. Monitoring health and safety standards

1. Preserving natural ecosystems
2. Preparing national and local environmental quality standards
3. Developing quality controls for industrial systems

1. Undertaking interdisciplinary research on health effects of climate change
2. Researching health effects of transport systems
3. Creating environmental health standards

1. Monitoring sustainable quality of life

1. Status
2. Quality
3. Health