Environmental health
Air, water, waste, and contamination where people live.
Criteria & scope →
Focus — Category 03
HEALTH & COMMUNITY WELL-BEING.
Ideas that improve how people stay well — the environment they live in, the food and water they rely on, and the care that reaches them where they are.
Areas in this category
CARE, PREVENTION, AND THE CONDITIONS THAT KEEP PEOPLE WELL.
Nutrition and food security
Enough food, of the right kind, reliably.
Criteria & scope →Water and sanitation
Safe water and safe sanitation, in use.
Criteria & scope →Community health
Care that reaches people where they live.
Criteria & scope →Occupational health
Safety and health in the work people actually do.
Criteria & scope →Mental well-being
Support for mental health, on people's own terms.
Criteria & scope →Traditional health knowledge
Health knowledge held in communities, respected and kept.
Criteria & scope →Accessible health systems
Removing what stands between people and care.
Criteria & scope →Climate-related health resilience
Health services and households ready for heat, flood, and disease shifts.
Criteria & scope →Every area has its own criteria. Read them before you write to us.