Isbn: 9780792354536 - environmental health for all: risk assessment and risk communication for national environmental health action plans (nato science partnership subseries: 2, 49, band 49) (3 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.…

Zustand: New. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 15-20 December 1997 Editor(s): Briggs, David J.; Stern, Richard M. (European Centre for Environment and Health, Bilthoven, The Netherlands); Tinker, Tim L. (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry). Series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 2. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; MBNH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 920. . 1998. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …