Decision Making in Environmental Health

✍ Scribed by D. Briggs

Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 291
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Decision-Making in Environmental Health examines the need for information in support of decision-making in environmental health. It discusses indicators of environmental health, methods of data collection and the assessment of exposure to and the health impact of different environmental risk factors.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Foreword......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS......Page 14
REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESSFUL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DECISION-MAKING......Page 24
THE NEED FOR INFORMATION: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH INDICATORS......Page 38
METHODS FOR BUILDING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH INDICATORS......Page 70
ASSESSMENT OF EXPOSURE AND HEALTH EFFECTS......Page 90
LINKING ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH DATA: STATISTICAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ISSUES......Page 116
USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS TO LINK ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH DATA......Page 146
APPLICATION OF HEADLAMP IN THE FIELD......Page 172
THE HEADLAMP APPROACH: A NEW MODEL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DECISION-MAKING......Page 218
EXAMPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH INDICATORS......Page 236
Index......Page 286

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