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

by David J. Briggs

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792354524
• ISBN13: 9780792354529
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"