The World Health Organization says it produced Inheriting the World: The Atlas of Children's Health and the Environment to address concerns prompted by more than three million annual deaths of children as a result of unhealthy environmental conditions. The site offers options for downloading the full document (a 9.5 megabyte download) or individual chapters.

The 33-page document is heavy with graphics, maps, and charts with text in simple, lay terms summarizing various environmental health risks children are exposed to around the world. It starts with a summary of children's mortality rate and poverty levels, drawing conclusions about correlations. It then gives a brief summary of traditional and new hazards. The report goes into specific environmental health risks, including a lack of safe drinking water, malaria, indoor smoke and other air quality issues both inside and outside, lead poisoning, safe food, child labor, pesticides, sun safety, and climate change.

In a section entitled "Highs and Lows of Environmental Health", it gives a timeline spanning 30 million BC to 1997.

The World Data Table includes population, gross national income, child mortality, water, sanitation, water collection, indoor smoke, child labor, poison centers, and dioxins/furans statistics for 192 countries.

One drawback to using the site is the awkward size of the document -- 13.79" x 9.66" -- which requires constant horizontal scrolling.