Director of Programs for Environmental Health and Climate Change
| Selected winner: | Vital Strategies Health Systems (Asia Pacific) Limited |
| Solution name: | Children’s Environmental Health Indicators (CEHI) |
| Origin of the winner: | Singapore |
Vital Strategies Health Systems is a global public health organization that believes every person should be protected by an effective and equitable public health system. It works with governments and civil society in 73 countries to design and implement evidence-based strategies that tackle their most pressing public health problems. Vital Strategies’ goal is to see governments adopt promising interventions at scale as rapidly as possible.
Children’s Environmental Health Indicators (CEHI)
Globally, the environment is responsible for a quarter of all deaths, with children bearing the brunt. Air and soil pollution, inadequate water and sanitation, chemicals and biological agents, climate change, and the built environment, expose people to risk factors in their homes, workplaces, schools and communities.
By using children's environmental health indicators (CEHIs), countries can begin tracking, assessing, and reporting on the impact of environmental hazards and its interventions on children's health. Our innovation rests on the premise that data for tracking environmental health threats is often routinely collected, though fragmented. We are proposing a collaborative process to develop a CEHI tracking system. Countries can develop their own CEHIs based on existing data sources and global evidence of associations between the climate, environment and health, making it an economical solution that any country can accomplish.
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