Healthy Environments for Healthier People

Over the past 20 years, the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health (WHO ECEH) has become a global centre of excellence in the field of environment and health. The Centre’s work on evidence and normative guidance on environment and health issues endures to adhere to the highest standards of scientific and ethical integrity. This work has evolved to achieve increasing relevance and recognition as the prevalence of environment and health in policy has grown in both global and European contexts. For example, an emerging impetus for its work is given by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in which health and well-being, linked to environmental and work-related factors are outcomes, determinants and enablers of sustainable development. This publication outlines the role of the Centre as the main driving force of the WHO Regional Office for Europe in the development of sound policy and technical guidance on environment and health.