Sustainable Development and Environmental Health

Risk Assessment and Management Unit

The objectives are:

• Strengthen National Institutional Capacities to estimate the likelihood of adverse effects which may result from exposure to specific health hazards or from the absence of favorable influences, through hazard identification, risk characterization, exposure assessment and risk estimation.
• Provide technical support in risk management to reduce the risk levels to which a population is subject. The process includes exposure control and risk monitoring.
• Risk support - benefit analysis of the expected positive and negative results of the interventions.

The Workers' Health Program at PAHO invites all parties to participate in a dynamic, creative and inter-sectoral initiative to promote human sustainable development from the Canadian Arctic to Argentine's Tierra del Fuego through the initiative of their Regional Plan. The Regional Plan is committed to promoting equitable occupational health for the Region of the Americas through a preventative approach to health care. The desirability of a healthy continental community necessitates that workplaces be safe environments for workers', and that human capital be optimized. The benefits of a healthy workforce include higher productivity and fewer social costs, as well as increased well being for all members of society. Indeed, good health is an essential part of progress.