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TitleNational environmental and occupational health policy : a guide to action for addressing the environmental and occupational health challenges facing...
Publication TypeMiscellaneous
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsLR, LMinistry o
Paginationii, 36 p.; 2 boxes
Date Published2010-08-01
PublisherRepublic of Liberia : Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
Place PublishedMonrovia, Liberia
Keywordshealth, liberia, occupational health, policies
Abstract

The development of a comprehensive policy on national environmental and occupational health by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOH&SW) has been characterized by a number of constraining factors; in particular, the events of the prolonged civil war that engulfed the country in 1989. With the return of normalcy in 2003, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in 2007 developed a National Health Policy that currently serves as a guide for the effective delivery of health services to the population of Liberia. The National Health Policy recognizes environmental and occupational health as essential and integral components of the Basic Package for Health Services (BPHS). Given the enormity of environmental and occupational health challenges facing the country, and the concern it generates for the Ministry, the need for a policy was never more urgent than now. This Policy is being developed within in the framework of the Basic Package for Health Services, and other global frameworks for addressing health and environmental challenges. [authors abstract]

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