Human Health

• Journals team up to highlight poverty and health
  www.forhealth.fi

• FAO special issue of Unasylva:
  website: http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0789e/a0789e00.htm 

• CIFOR Occasional Paper No. 45. Colfer, Carol J. Pierce.; Sheil. D. and Kishi, M. 2006. Forests and Human Health Assessing the Evidence. 
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  This 100 page document is a survey of some 650 documents, from a wide variety of disciplines. It looks at nutrition, medicinal plants, traditional health care systems, and culture, from the perspectives of the causal links between the health of people and forests, and the health situation of people in and around forests.

• Human Health and Forests: A Global Overview of Issues, Practice and Policy
  PDF: English (size 0.8 MB)

  This book, which brings together 17 chapters on various topics related to human health and forests, includes authors from a wide variety of fields. It includes a synthesis section, a section with specific cases, and a section on health care delivery in forested areas, focused mainly on the tropics.

• CIFOR Forest and Health Initiative project.
  website: http://www.cifor.org/ForestHealth