Health and environmental training in mercury-contaminated areas

International Journal of Environment and Health

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 621-637

  Bose O’Reilly, Stephan ^a   Lettmeier, Beate ^a   Cao, Thuy Linh ^a   Siebert, Uwe ^a   Tesha, Aloyce L ^b   Pronczuk, Jenny ^c   Beinhoff, Christian ^d   Drasch, Gustav ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b Ministry of Energy and Minerals   (Tanzania)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d Ludwig Maximilians University ^*  (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

environment; health; Indonesia; mercury; Tanzania; training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951714310     PISSN: 17434955     EISSN: 17434963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijenvh.2007.018580     Document Type: Article

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9. The training projects were part of the Global Mercury Project (GMP) of United Nations Industrial Development Organization). GEF (Global Environment Facility (UNIDO) through United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is the main funding source for UNIDO. Some of the training modules were developed by WHO, Public Health and Environment (J.P.). The other training modules were developed by the authors (S.B. and B.L.). The evaluation was performed by the authors without any funding.