HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT - IN ARAB COUNTRIES

The latest report of the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) – Health and the Environment in Arab Countries – aims to highlight the main environmental health risks the region is faced with, whilst emphasizing concrete recommendations and lessons to be learned from past and current environmental and health crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic. [...] Uncontrolled use of ammunition and successive wars and conflicts in the Arab region have also impacted the health of millions and led to a disruption in health services and the spread of diseases in camps housing millions of internally displaced persons and refugees. [...] In a collaborative approach, the Ministries of Health and Ministries of Environment in the Arab region should emphasize the importance of the public health and environmental sectors. [...] In terms of the total disease burden, As described below, the adverse health regardless of the public health and environmental burdens of the aforementioned, conventional protection improvements, NCD prevalence has environmental risks in the Arab region have FIGURE 3 CAUSES OF DEATH ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE WORLD AND THE ARAB REGION 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 - Non-Communicable Communicabl. [...] In 2017, the Ministers of Health and Environment of the 22 Arab countries endorsed the 2017- Notwithstanding the limited contributions of 2030 Arab Strategy and guidelines of action the Arab region to climate change, the health on health and the environment.