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How to use this volume -- Acronym list -- Executive summary -- Pt. 1: Harmonizing sectoral priorities: a new approach to environmental health -- 1. Challenges of environmental health in developing countries -- 2. Developing solutions through targeted collaboration -- 3. Socioeconomic justification and challenges -- 4. Gathering and analyzing information for envionmental health -- 5. Preparing an environmental health profile -- 6. Adapting environmental assessments or preparing environmental health assessments -- Pt. 2: Environmental health assessment guidelines -- 7. Environmental health background analyses -- 8. Cross-sectoral linkages:agriculture and rural development sector -- 9.Cross-sectoral linkages with the energy sector -- 10. Cross sectoral linkages: environment sector -- 11. Cross-sectoral linkages: industry sector -- 13. Cross-sectoral linkages: infrastructure sector -- 14. Global issues -- Pt 3. Putting theory into parctice: a case study in Ghana -- 15. Ghana sample sectoral profiles -- 16.SAmple institutional needs assessment from Ghana -- 17. Sample workshop on targeted collaboration in Ghana -- Anexes -- References -- Glossary -- Bibliography.

This discussion paper: a) proposes a new approach of targeted collaboration among different sectors; b) devises new tools or enhances existing ones to facilitate the contributions of different sectors to help relieve health problems; and c) puts theory into practice through a pilot in Ghana. The report is divided into three parts. Part 1 explains the foundations of environmental health and proposes a new approach that taps health benefits systematically outside the health sector through multisectoral collaboration. Part 2 provides basic tools to identify, prioritize, and propose remedial measures for many multisectoral health problems, many of which could and do otherwise fall between the cracks in single sector projects. Part 3 summarizes the findings and presents background material from a workshop in Ghana, " Targeted Collaboration among Line Agencies, Local Communities and the Ministry of Health, " putting into practice the ideas of Parts 1 and 2. Annex A provides a rapid checklist on environmental health for practitioners and task managers. Annex B provides one-page summaries of about twenty major diseases.