Annual Review 2012
HEAL’s 2012 Annual Review highlights our successes and collaborations with members and partners in all our different policy areas (environment and health, climate and energy, chemicals, pesticides and air quality).
Non-Communicable Diseases and Environmental Determinants
This briefing paper aims to provide latest knowledge on Non Communicable Diseases from some of the leading experts and organisations from four perspectives: women’s organisations, health sector, developing countries and trade unions.
Background Paper: Health impacts of lignite-fired power plants: The German-Polish region Lusatia
Background information and facts on health impacts and external costs of three lignite-fired power plants in the German Lausitz as well as two Polish lignite-fired power plants in the proximity of the border.
Annual Review 2011
The HEAL Annual review 2011 highlights our accomplishments and collaborations with member organisations and partners in all of our different policy areas.
Chemicals in our food and consumer products – A missing link in the epidemics of obesity and diabetes?
This leaflet highlights how chemicals in food and consumer products may be causing obesity and diabetes. It outlines some of the evidence and how individuals and policy makers can take preventive actions.
Acting now for a better Health – 30 % Reduction Target for EU Climate Policy
Our ’Acting Now’ Informational Postcard reports on what stronger climate action would do for health.
HEAL fact sheet – Chronic disease and environment
In lieu of the European Parliament voting on a Resolution on the EU position and commitment in advance to the UN high-level meeting on the prevention and control of non-communicable disease, HEAL produced a fact sheet titled ’Chronic disease: How do environmental factors play a role?’
Acting now for a better Health – 30 % Reduction Target for EU Climate Policy
Our report quantifies the health benefits for Europeans of stronger EU action on climate change for both the EU and different Member States.
Climate change may be hazardous to your health
A global prescription that aims to increase focus on the health effects of climate change by uniting the international health community behind four principles...
Men Under Threat: How the decline in male reproductive health may be linked to exposure to chemicals
This leaflet briefly describes the evidence that hormonally active chemicals may be implicated in the deterioration of male reproductive health.
Breast Cancer: Preventing the preventable
This leaflet briefly describes the evidence that hormonally active chemicals may be implicated in breast cancer.
Breast Cancer: Factors influencing the risk of breast cancer – established and emerging
This briefing summarises the key information on all the risk factors and breast cancer with particular focus on the potential role of certain chemicals in the environment.
Breast Cancer and exposure to hormonally active chemicals: An appraisal of the scientific evidence
The report provides a review of the scientific evidence that certain chemicals may be implicated in breast cancer, and focuses on the role of hormone disrupting chemicals.
Halting the child brain drain: Why we need to tackle global mercury contamination
The survey findings of this report demonstrate women’s current levels of mercury as a concrete example of low-level exposure to an environmental toxic.
