Healthy Environment, Healthy Lives: How the Environment Influences Health and Wellbeing in Europe.

Summary

This European Environment Agency (EEA) report synthesises evidence on the relationships between environmental conditions and human health and wellbeing in Europe. It likely draws on existing epidemiological, monitoring, and policy data to characterise how pressures such as pollution, chemical exposure, biodiversity loss, and climate change contribute to ill health. The report is intended to inform European environmental and public health policy, rather than present original empirical research.

UK applicability

Although published in 2023 — after the UK's departure from the EU — the findings remain broadly applicable to UK conditions given shared environmental pressures, comparable regulatory frameworks, and the UK's continued engagement with European environmental monitoring. UK policymakers and public health bodies may use comparable evidence to inform domestic environmental health strategies.

Key measures

Burden of disease attributable to environmental factors; prevalence of exposure to pollutants, chemical contaminants, and climate-related hazards; health outcome indicators across European member states

Outcomes reported

The report assesses how environmental factors — including air and water quality, chemical exposures, climate change, and food environments — affect human health and wellbeing across European countries. It likely reports burden-of-disease estimates and identifies populations most at risk from environmental health pressures.

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