Tools and Resources
Dealing With Mercury Spills
This video on safe disposal of spilled mercury was produced HCWH's Strategic Partner in South Asia, Toxics Link.
Websites
- Mercury Free Health Care, A WHO-HCWH Global Initiative
- UNEP Mercury Programme
- Zero Mercury Working Group
Model Policies
- WHO Policy on Mercury in Health Care (pdf)
- Argentina: Resolution of the Minister of Health (pdf)
- Buenos Aires: Declaration on Mercury-Free Health Care (pdf)
- European Union: Ban on Sale of Mercury-Measuring Instruments (pdf)
- Johannesburg: Declaration on Mercury-Free Health Care (pdf)
- Manilla: Declaration on Mercury-Free Health Care (pdf)
- New Delhi: Declaration on Mercury-Free Health Care (pdf)
- Philippines: Dept. of Health Administrative Order (pdf)
- Philippines: Dept. Interior and Local Government Memorandum (pdf)
Reports, Articles, and Guides
- Toward the Tipping Point: WHO-HCWH Global Initiative to Substitute Mercury-Based Medical Devices in Health Care. A Two-Year Progress Report (pdf)
- The End of an Era: The Phase Out of Mercury Blood Pressure Devices in the United States (pdf)
- The Global Movement for Mercury-Free Health Care Report (pdf)
- Report of the Southeast Asia Conference on Mercury in Health Care (pdf)
- World Medical Journal article on Mercury-Free Health Care (pdf)
- WHO: Affordable Technology: Blood Pressure Measuring Devices for Low Resource Settings (pdf)
- Lurking Menace: Mercury in the Health-Care Sector (pdf)
- Mercury-Free Blood Pressure Measurement Equipment: Experiences in the Swedish Healthcare Sector (pdf)
- Guide to Mercury-Free Alternatives in Southeast Asia (pdf)
- World Medical Association Statement on Reducing the Global Burden of Mercury (pdf)