Environment plays a major role in child deaths in Europe

Pollution, dirty water, poor sanitation and poison is the cause of one in three children in the European region met his end. Thus the conclusion that the research results presented by Dr Giorgio Tamburlini from The Institute of Child Health in Trieste (Italy) to the world Health Organization (WHO).
According to reports published by WHO, the pollution from burning coal and wood smoke is a killer of children the number one in Central Asia and Turkey. While in Europe, the deaths came from the fragility of many traffic incidents that cause sejumkah make children suffering injury.
"One in three children who died in some European countries can be called due to environmental factors," said Dr. Giorgio Tamburlini, the leader of this research. WHO report calls 100 000 children die and another 6 million lives each year at risk. Victims came from a newborn child until the age of 19 years in 52 countries in Western Europe and Eastern Europe, including fractions of a number of countries the Soviet Union.
"This report represents the first estimate of health impacts on children and adolescents because of environmental factors disejumlah countries in Europe," he said, reports published in the Lancet medical journal has become one of the discussion in a meeting of officials of the European Environment and Health held 23-25 juni ago in Budapest, Romania.
No doubt in times of growth factors to the child's environment is very influential. They are threatened because the place they live and play very bad in terms of the environment. Although a number of causes of deaths vary widely, but the main factors such as pulosi, sanitation and clean water support is needed to protect them from injury risk factors.
Injury that include traffic accidents, falls, violence or suicide cases that hit almost 75 000 teenagers across the European region in 2001 ago. Approximately 23 000 children died during the four years because of pneumonia and a host of other diseases due to air pollution.
The low sanitation to make 13 000 children die of diarrhea. "Intervention needs to be done to reduce the increase of children affected by this," said Dr. Giorgio. The report also mentions that a number of areas that need to be the main targets are children living on the street and threatened them at high risk for a number of factors that environment.
Dr. Giorgio Tamburlini also said the results of his study could be a warning that some developing countries to be able to help children and teenagers out of a number of risk.