Ministerial Meeting on Health and the Environment
Cleaning up a polluted stream
The Millennium Development Goals recognize that development is an intersectoral and interdependent process, that health is central to poverty reduction, and that safe and clean environments are crucial for health. This means that health needs to be at the heart of countries’ poverty reduction strategies. This is an area where we need to do much more. Research carried out by WHO suggests that most national development plans do not prioritize health as much as they need to.
