Their commitment to
ensuring the success of these programs and
prevention strategies through action at the
local, regional, and national levels has been
reinforced through the words of the Bangkok
Statement.
In this article we review the current status
of environmental threats to children’s health in
the Southeast Asia and Western Pacific regions
and report on recent solutions applied in these
regions in an effort to reduce these threats.
These status reports have been drawn primarily
from discussions and proceedings presented at
the International Conference on Environmental
Threats to the Health of Children, sponsored