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UNICEF-WHO Introductory Course on Children’s Environmental Health

UNICEF-WHO Introductory Course on Children’s Environmental Health

UNICEF/UN0144148/Abramson
© Credits

This course, developed by UNICEF and WHO, will help health workers to protect children’s health from pollution and climate change.

It is a comprehensive set of internationally harmonized and peer-reviewed materials on the most relevant and pressing issues on children's environmental health. Participants will increase their capacity to recognize, prevent, diagnose and manage children’s conditions related to an array of environmental threats.

The UNICEF-WHO Introductory Course on Children’s Environmental Health is available on UNICEF's educational portal AGORA. It is free, online, open to the public and requires a user profile. The course can be completed on a computer, smartphone or tablet with internet connection. The course can be downloaded and completed offline.

Learners who wish to earn a digital certificate of completion from UNICEF and WHO are required to score 80 per cent or higher on all quizzes and complete the end-of-course survey.

The course is based on the content in the WHO Training Package on children’s environmental health for Health Care Providers – but unlike this package the UNICEF/WHO course is an interactive, self-paced course that learners can complete on their own.

Learning outcomes:

At the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Describe the influences of environmental factors on children’s health, development and well-being 
  • Evaluate children’s unique vulnerability to environmental hazards
  • Recognize signs, symptoms and diseases linked to existing and emerging environmental risk factors 
  • Take a paediatric environmental history
  • Identify and access information on paediatric environmental threats 
  • Discuss the environmental risks proficiently with patients, families, policy-makers, educators and the community, providing understandable, concise information about potential threats and risk-reduction strategies

What are the individual modules:





WHO is grateful for financial support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Sweden and the Government of Spain.