Boosting Health by Improving Air Quality in the Balkans
This briefing provides an assessment of the health benefits and saved costs that will be achieved when air pollution control following Energy Community rules are in place for coal and lignite power stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia in the Western Balkans, and demonstrates that quick and comprehensive action to drive down emissions will boost the benefits.
Climate mitigation is win-win for public health
A new publication in German by HEAL aims to shed light on a neglected topic among the German public: this is how measures to tackle climate change such as cleaner…
Food Contact Materials and Chemical Contamination
This HEAL briefing looks at health concerns related to chemicals in food contact materials in Europe. It addresses the current legislative system for these materials and defines what is missing…
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.
