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Environmental Health for All: Risk Assessment and Risk Communication for National Environmental Health Action Plans

Environmental Health for All: Risk Assessment and Risk Communication for National Environmental Health Action Plans

Briggs, David J.
Stern, Richard M.
Tinker, Tim L.

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Series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 2, Book 49

Medical ReferenceTechnology & Engineering

ISBN10: 0792354532
ISBN13: 9780792354536
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 31 1998
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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 occupation) which we make as individuals. If we are to improve and protect our own health, therefore, and in so doing play our personal role in achieving the targets set by these Plans, we need to be guided by a clear understanding of the risks involved.

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