Children's Environmental Health Indicators in Context of the Sustainable Development Goals for Small Island Developing States
- 주제(키워드) sustainable development goals , SDG , sustainable development impacts , children's environmental health indicators , CEHI , small island developing states , SIDS , pacific island small states , PSS
- 주제(기타) Environmental Sciences; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
- 설명문(일반) [Jung, Eun Mi; Ha, Eun Hee] Ewha Womans Univ, Coll Med, Dept Occupat & Environm Med, Seoul 07985, South Korea; [Jung, Eun Mi; Kim, Eun Mee; Ha, Eun Hee] Ewha Womans Univ, Coll Med, Ewha Global Hlth Inst Girls, Seoul 07985, South Korea; [Jagals, Paul; Brereton, Claire; Sly, Peter D.] Univ Queensland, Child Hlth Res Ctr, Brisbane, Qld 4101, Australia; [Jagals, Paul] Fiji Natl Univ, Sch Publ Hlth & Primary Care, Suva, Fiji; [Kim, Rokho] WHO Reg Off Western Pacific, Hlth & Environm, Manila 1000, Philippines; [Kim, Eun Mee] Ewha Womans Univ, Grad Sch Int Studies, Dept Int Studies, Seoul 03760, South Korea
- 등재 SCIE, SSCI, SCOPUS
- 발행기관 MDPI
- 발행년도 2018
- URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/ewha/000000155714
- 본문언어 영어
- Published As http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15071404
초록/요약
The unique environmental vulnerability of small island developing states (SIDS) is likely to impact negatively on children's health. Children's environmental health indicators (CEHI) are standardized measures that can be used to assess the environmental exposures and their resulting health outcomes in children. This study sought to utilize the United Nations (UN) global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with their associated targets and indicators, as a framework for a CEHI proposal for SIDS. Exposure-side indicators were taken from key themes from the 2012 Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, and health-side indicators were selected based on the most significant contributors to the burden of disease in children. The multiple-exposures multiple-effect (MEME) framework was then used to show the relationships between environmental exposures and children's health outcomes. The framework was populated with available data from the World Bank's DataBank. Whilst there was some data available at a population level, major gaps in both exposure-side and health-side indicators were revealed. In order to progress children's environmental health in SIDS, a further piece of work is required to propose a fully prioritized set of exposure-side and health-side CEHIs; based on, but not exclusively linked to, the SDGs.
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