Toolkit | Action oriented
Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit (CHEST)
For clean and safe interventions in the home. Helps health sector professionals and policy-makers implement the recommendations found in WHO guidelines on indoor air quality and household fuel combustion. It provides resources to guide the energy planning process, using evidence from WHO databases...
Language(s): English | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: WHO
Toolkit | Action oriented
Take Action To Improve Health: Act on What's Important
An online toolkit delivered as a suite of advice and frameworks for promoting policy, systems and environmental changes to improve community health for the long term. The section featured here specifically looks at how to develop public and political will. The toolkit offers a collection of HIAs,...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: Population Health Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Evidence, Toolkit | 2022Descriptive resource
WHO Urban Health Initiative in Accra, Ghana: summary of project results
This report summarizes project results from the pilot in the city of Accra (Ghana) to address air pollution and related health effects. It provides guidance and available tools that can be adapted to similar initiatives around the world to assess the health impacts of air pollution, promote policies...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Regional | Author/Publisher: WHO
Evidence, Toolkit | 2021Action oriented
WHO global air quality guidelines: particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide
The overall objective of the updated global guidelines is to offer quantitative health-based recommendations for air quality management, expressed as long- or short-term concentrations for a number of key air pollutants. The main groups of users of this guideline are policy-makers, lawmakers and technical...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: WHO
Toolkit | 2019Action oriented | Descriptive resource
Rapid Health Impact Assessment Tool
This rapid HIA tool is designed to assess the likely health impacts of development plans and proposals, including planning frameworks and masterplans for large areas, regeneration and estate renewal programmes and outline and detailed planning applications. It can be applied in a variety of processes,...
Language(s): EN | Geographic Scope: Global | Author/Publisher: NHS. London Healthy Urban Development Unit
