Global Environmental Health. Research Gaps and Barriers for Providing Sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Services

摘要

The Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medi-cine of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) focuses on building partnerships and facilitating scientific discussions of ongoing and emerging issues in the field of environmental health. The roundtable illuminates scientific discussions to foster understanding among the public, academia, government, nongovernmental orga-nizations, industry, and policy makers, but it does not make recommendations. A cornerstone of the approach is to air divergent views on sensitive and difficult issues in an atmosphere of respect and neutrality, in order to foster dialogue and strategic solutions.This workshop summary was prepared for the roundtable membership in the name of the rapporteur and includes a collection of individually authored com-mentaries. The contents of the unattributed sections are based on the presentations and discussions that took place during the workshop. The workshop summary is organized in chapters as a topic-by-topic description of the presentations and discussions. The workshop agenda, as well as speaker information and a list of attendees, appears in the appendixes at the end of the summary.The reader should be aware that the material presented here expresses the views and opinions of the individuals participating in the workshop and not the deliberations of a formally constituted IOM consensus study committee. These proceedings summarize only what participants stated in the workshop and are not intended to be an exhaustive exploration of the subject matter and should not be perceived as a consensus of the participants, nor the views of the roundtable, the Institute of Medicine, or its sponsors.