tailieunhanh - Healthy wetlands, healthy people A review of wetlands and human health interactions

Human health can be affected by acute or chronic exposure to toxicants, through the media of water, wet land sediments, or even air when sediments becom dessicated and airborne or burnt. The nature of thes exposures is exacerbated by human behaviours and activities and they can result whenever ecosystem services have been eroded – especially when the hydrological services that maintain biological, geo logical and chemical processes have been distorted by human activities of over extraction of water. Drainage and diversions of water are the two activi ties responsible for the majority of such changes. Wetlands are often the loci for communicable disease where microorganisms (the. | Ramsar Technical Reports Ramsar Technical Report No. 6 lthy wetlands healthy people A review of wetlands and human health interactions Pierre Horwitz C. Max Finlayson Philip Weinstein Ramsar Technical Report No. 6 Healthy wetlands healthy people A review of wetlands and human health interactions Coordinating authors Pierre Horwitz C. Max Finlayson Philip Weinstein Despite the production of more food and extraction of more water globally wetlands continue to decline and public health and living standards for many do not improve. Why is this - and what needs to change to improve the situation If we manage wetlands better can we improve the health and well-being of people Indeed why is this important This report seeks to address these questions. Ramsar Convention Secretariat Rue Mauverney 28 1196 Gland Switzerland ei World Health Organization World Health Organization Avenue Appia 20 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland February .