New briefing on Mental Health and Climate Change Briefing in Collaboration with the Turkish Psychiatric Association
Civil society organisations and health experts, as part of the Health Collaboration on Climate Change and Environment Project (CISIP), have published a new briefing titled "Climate Change and Mental Health"…
Health benefits of a Green Deal approach in Turkey
Health threats of short-term winter smog in Poland
Today, HEAL Poland has published an analysis of particulate matter air pollution in Poland during the 2022/23 heating season, and the associated health impacts of short-term exposure to air pollution.…
HEAL’s analysis of the draft European Parliament ENVI report regarding the legal proposal for reform of the CLP legislation
The myth of “clean coal”: why coal power generation is always unhealthy / “Temiz kömür” efsanesi: neden kömürden enerji üretmek her koşulda sağlıksızdır
Response to the public consultation on the revision of the legislation on the classification, labelling, and packaging of chemicals (CLP)
HEAL welcomes the draft proposal for a revision of the CLP legislation and overall shares a positive assessment of the set of measures put forward by the European Commission in…
Q&A on animal testing and chemical safety assessments
An early coal phase-out in Poland can save lives, improve health and strengthen the economy
Pesticides and Health Impacts / Pestisitler ve Sağlığa Etkileri
Pestisitlerin Sağlık Etkileri konusunda Türkiye sağlık sektöründen öneriler
Curing Chronic Coal: The health benefits of a 2030 coal phase out in Turkey
A new report by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) now highlights that phasing out coal power in Turkey earlier (by 2030) rather than later (by 2050) would produce tremendous…
Toolkit (EN, IT, DE): Advocating for clean air – how to communicate the science
Recommendations from the Turkish health sector on improving air quality
Turkey is a country with a high burden of disease from air pollution. Poor air quality is the leading environmental risk factor for premature death in the country (and also…
False fix: the hidden health impacts of Europe’s fossil gas dependency
First of its kind analysis on the health harm of burning fossil gas shows that in 2019 alone, burning fossil gas for power (and heat) generation caused over 2,800 premature deaths from…