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Since the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health (Budapest, 2004), the children’s health andenvironment programme of the WHO Regional Office for Europe has been collecting case studies on actions toimprove children’s health and environment. The aim of this exercise was to document experiences in implementingmeasures to address the risk factors covered by the Children’s Environment and Health Action Plan for Europe.These descriptions are intended to serve as examples for future implementation of national children’s environmentand health action plans. This collection of case studies describes initiatives, with the intention of encouragingcountries to share their experiences, focusing on the process of implementing each action, including challengesand lessons learned. Thirty-three case studies from the WHO European Region were selected for inclusion. Thisreport describes them and presents the results of their analysis.