Environment and Health

PHAIWA recognises environment and health as a key advocacy area. Our key areas of focus include:

Indigenous environmental health
Children’s environment and health
Linking sustainable development and human health – where next?
Quantifying environment and health risks
Identifying the environment and health research agenda
The interface between regulation and action in health and environment

To view our complete list of advocacy actions for environment and health please see below for information on our 2009 Environment & Health Forum

PHAIWA also convenes an Environment and Health Advocacy Committee who provide strategic direction to the efforts and projects undertaken by PHAIWA in this area. Please see below for more information on the Environment & Health Advocacy Committee, including a list of members.

If you would like to join this committee, please send us an email in the contact us section.

Public Health Planning Workshop March 2012

The slides in the attachement below were presented at a workshop during the EHA WA Branch conference in March 2012.

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Environment and Health Advocacy Committee

A list of all current members is available in the PDF below. The role of this Committee will be to progress the advocacy targets generated at the Environment and Health Forum held in 2009.

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Environment_and_Health_Advocacy_Committee_May_2010.pdf	64 Kb

Environment & Health Forum Recommendations

On 31 March 2009 over 100 public health and environment professionals met to develop a list of recommendations for State and National Governments in relation to environment and health (E&H).

Six key themes were discussed:

Indigenous environmental health
Children's environment and health
Linking sustainable development and human health: where next?
Quantifying environment and health risks
Identifying the environment and health research agenda
The interface between regulation and action in health and environment

Each theme developed specific recommendations; however some were reflected across multiple areas. These included the need:

For long term sustainable funding and to investigate alternative resource allocation models that are more appropriate to E&H issues.
To clarify the opportunities and potential actions of local government in E&H and empower local government to address E&H issues locally.
To enhance and support workforce development - with an emphasis on supporting Indigenous Environmental Health Workers - through effective training and mentoring

Please download the attachment below to read the full list of recommendations.

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Environment and Health reccomendations	139 Kb

Environmental health needs report

Environmental Health Needs of Aboriginal Communities in WA – Report Released

This report outlines the findings from a survey of discrete Aboriginal communities during late 2007 and through 2008, funded by the Environmental Health Coordinating Committee (EHNCC), the peak coordinating body in Aboriginal environmental health in WA.

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Environmental health needs report	4189 Kb

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