INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL-HEALTH - PRIORITIES FROM HUAIROU

Between August 30 and September 8, 1995, 38,000 women and several hund red men met in Huairou, China, to discuss the global status of women a nd to lobby for specific wording in the Agenda for Women that was bein g finalized in Beijing as part of the United Nations Fourth World Conf erence on Women. This article has two main objectives, The first objec tive is to summarize the priority concerns identified in Huairou that are related to international environmental health, especially concerns related to women, The second objective is to provide the rationale an d documentation that support including these topics as part of profess ional education and practice in environmental health in the United Sta tes. It is hoped that this discussion will aid environmental health pr ofessionals in better appreciating the connection between global envir onmental health problems and local problems and the applicability of g ender-relevant environmental health concerns to local programming, pol icies, and infrastructure.