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Physical environment: key references

Please note that the majority of the references listed below relate specifically to policy/strategy documents. More comprehensive lists of references on the physical environment in general are available from, for example, the reference section within the recent Health Scotland/Health Protection Scotland indoor air pollution report - click here to download file (1.4 mb)Word document -  or indeed from some of the documents cited below.

Note also that further relevant references are also listed within the environmental justice pages of the website.

Health Protection Agency. Health Protection in the 21st Century - Understanding the Burden of Disease; preparing for the future. HPA, 2005. (Can be downloaded from the relevant page of the Health Protection Agency website)

HM Government. One future - different paths. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), 2005

Pollution Prevention and Control regulations: see the SEPA website

Scottish Executive. Choosing Our Future: Scotland's Sustainable Development Strategy. Scottish Executive, 2005.

Scottish Executive. Scotland's transport future - the transport white paper 2004

Scottish Executive. Scotland's National Transport Strategy: A Consultation. Scottish Executive, 2006.

Scottish Executive Environment Group. Scotland's Bathing Waters a strategy for improvement report. Scottish Executive, 2002.

Scottish Executive. Health protection in Scotland: a consultation paper. Scottish Executive, 2002.

Scottish Executive. Scotland's biodiversity: It's in your hands. Scottish Executive, 2004

Scottish Executive. Better communities in Scotland: closing the gap. Scottish Executive, 2002.

Scottish Executive. Homes for Scotland's people. A Scottish housing policy statement. Scottish Executive, 2005.

SEPA. The national waste plan 2003.

SEPA. The future for Scotland's Waters: Guiding principles on the technical requirements of the water framework directive.PDF Button (2.9MB). Scottish Environment Protection Agency, 2002

The UK air quality strategy report (plus recent addendum (2003)): further information and progress reports available from the DEFRA website

WHO. Children's environment and health action plan for Europe. World Health Organisation, Europe, 2004.

WHO. Development of environment & health indicators for EU Countries: results of a pilot study. World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe, 2004.

WHO. Preventing disease through healthy environments: towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease. World Health Organisation, 2006. 

Additional recent, relevant references:

Naske N., Taylor L., Mulvihill C., Doyle N. Housing and public health: a review of reviews of interventions for improving health. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence 2005.

Howden-Chapman P. et al. Effect of insulating existing houses on health inequality: cluster randomised study in the community. BMJ 2007;334;460.