书目名称 | Environmental Health for All | 副标题 | Risk Assessment and | 编辑 | David J. Briggs (Research Director),Richard Stern, | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 2 | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Accurate assessment of environmental hazards and related risks is a primary prerequisite for effective environmental health protection, at both the individual and collective level. National and regional policies on environmental health need to be guided by knowledge about the risks to the populations involved; as the Environmental Action Plan for Europe notes, ‘priority setting requires the comparative assessment of risks to health of different environmental factors against the cost of controlling them.‘ In recent years this has assumed particular importance, for with the encouragement of the World Health Organisation (WHO), all countries in Europe are committed to producing National Environmental Health Action Plans (NEHAPs), which will define priorities and targets for environmental health and the actions needed to achieve them. Reliable information on risks is clearly fundamantal to this process. Individual risk assessment is no less important in this context. Much of the responsibility and capacity to improve public health lies ultimately in the choices (e.g. about diet, smoking, alcohol consumption, sexual activities, sporting activities, travel mode, place of residence and oc | 出版日期 | Book 1999 | 关键词 | assessment; cancer; development; environmental health; health; health policy | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4740-8 | isbn_softcover | 978-0-7923-5453-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-011-4740-8Series ISSN 1389-1839 | issn_series | 1389-1839 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1999 |
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