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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... risk assessment 7 14 25 Section 2 Assessing environmental health risks 3 A model for human health risk assessment 4 Hazard identification 5 The dose–response relationship 6 Exposure assessment 7 Risk characterization 27 35 42 52 67 77 ...
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... risk assessment. How has it come about and why is it important now? Section 2, Assessing environmental health risks. Chapters 3–7 constitute the main scientific input to the book. Even for non-scientists with an interest in ...
... assessment, social impact assessment, strategic environmental assessment, environmental risk ranking, alternatives assessment and the precautionary principle. The emphasis is not on providing a detailed account, for this is done well in ...
... risk assessment in determining action plans. Risk-based thinking, of which risk assessment is a part, has, in fact, become an almost standard approach to decision making and can be found in all countries of the world, particularly in ...
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 |