Connecting Global Priorities: Biodiversity and Human Health
A State of Knowledge Review
World Health Organization and Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2015.
ISBN: 9789241508537 :: 364 pages

Overview
Healthy communities rely on well-functioning ecosystems. They provide clean air, fresh water, medicines and food security. They also limit disease and stabilize the climate. But biodiversity loss is happening at unprecedented rates, impacting human health worldwide, according to a new state of knowledge review of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and WHO.