Question

The incidence of untreated disease in the developing world is disproportionately greater than that which exists in developed countries

Answer 1

health and environmental issues have been included in several highlevel initiatives, including the United Nations Millennium Declaration,

and regional interministerial conferences on health and the environment.

Despite the visibility of these issues, the importance of environmental

health interventions in preventing disease is not always fully appreciated.

As the present analysis shows, modifying environmental risk factors for

disease and injury could significantly reduce the disease burden of a

country. Several conclusions emerge from this study, which are listed below

under four main areas.

**Nearly one quarter of the global disease burden is

attributable to the modifiable environment

**The environmental disease burden is not distributed evenly

across the world, and some regions carry a

disproportionately heavy burden for specific diseases.

**Children suffer a disproportionate share of the

environmental health burden