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

by Richard Stern

  • ISBN: 9780792354529
  • ISBN10: 0792354524

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

by Richard Stern

  • List Price: $299.00
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub
  • Publish date: 12/01/1998
  • ISBN: 9780792354529
  • ISBN10: 0792354524
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Description: One. Developing NEHAPs: practice and experience.- 1. National Environmental Health Action Plans: background and process.- 2. The NEHAP experience in the Czech Republic, Romania and Poland.- 3. Setting priorities for environmental health risks in Sweden.- Two. Risk Assessment: Exploring Relationships Between Environment and Health.- 4. Sources and consequences of uncertainty in risk estimates.- 5. Outbreak of baldness in children in Sillame, Estonia.- 6. Health effects of exposure to metals from manufacturing plants.- 7. Is iodide a confounding or effect modifying factor of liver cirrhosis?.- 8. Structural-functional state of the bone-muscular system in people exposed to low doses of ionising radiation.- Three. Risk Assessment: Mapping and Modelling.- 9. Tools for risk assessment: statistical and spatial methods.- 10. Environmental modelling in the NEHAP process.- 11. Tools for risk assessment: Geographic Information Systems.- 12. Monte Carlo simulations in risk assessment: cancer risk in the Polish coke industry.- Four. Risk Communication.- 13. Promoting active public participation.- 14. Putting risk communication policy into practice: a U.S. federal perspective.- 15. Priority setting of environmental and health policy options.- 16. Presenting decision-makers with their choices: environment health indicators for NEHAPs.- Five. Issues and Research Needs.- 17. What is risk?.- 18. Quantifying the unquantifiable and comparing the non-commensurate.- 19. Reality versus perception, and values versus science in risk assessment and risk perception.- 20. Coping with complexity in environmental health management and policy.- References.- Appendix 1. Workshop Conclusions and Recommendations.- Appendix 2. Workshop Participants.
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