Environmental Health PolicyMcGraw-Hill Education (UK), 2006 M12 16 - 296 pages Understanding Public Health Series Editors: Nick Black and Rosalind Raine There is an increasing global awareness of the inevitable limits of individual health care and of the need to complement such services with effective public health strategies. Understanding Public Health is an innovative series of twenty books, published by Open University Press in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. It provides self-directed learning covering the major issues in public health affecting low, middle and high income countries. The series is aimed at those studying public health, either by distance learning or more traditional methods, as well as public health practitioners and policy makers. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH POLICY Environmental health policy occupies a prominent position on both local and global agendas as old and new challenges confront the human race. There is a continual requirement for policies which will deal effectively with a seemingly never-ending supply of hazards which impinge on health and wellbeing. This book provides a multidisciplinary window onto environmental policy and its formulation. From this you will observe both order which exists at the centre, and controversies around the borders. This book considers:
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... policy-makers. Titles in the series Analytical models for decision making: Colin Sanderson and Reinhold Gruen Controlling communicable disease: Norman Noah Economic analysis for management and policy: Stephen Jan, Lilani Kumaranayake ...
... policies that will deal effectively with a seemingly never-ending supply of hazards that impinge on health and well-being. The challenge faced by policy makers is by no means straightforward. Policies must not only be effective, they ...
... policy'. It points out choices which can be made regarding the former, and, by way of an analysis of some general principles of environmental health policy, identifies the key factors on the minds of most environmental policy makers at ...
... policy makers. Chapter 13 introduces one more sociological theory, cultural theory, which takes a very different line on how controversies arise and what to do about them. It has important advice to offer policy makers, as well as ...
... policy as currently practised. Finally, you will receive a brief and preliminary introduction to the key tools recommended by international agencies, governments and other organizations as aids for decision makers in determining their ...
Contents
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Section 2 Assessing environmental health risks | 25 |
Section 3 Rational action and environmental health policy | 77 |
Section 4 Beyond the rational action approach | 133 |
Section 5 Other approaches | 171 |
Section 6 Making policy | 213 |
Section 7 Initiatives local to global | 243 |
Glossary | 271 |
Index | 277 |
Back Cover | 285 |