Decision-making in environmental health : from evidence to action

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London : E & FN Spon, 2000

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9780419259503

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Environmental health -- Decision making

Environmental health

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Corval�an, C. (Carlos)

Zielhuis, G. (Gerhard)

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World Health Organization

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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.

Author Notes

C. Corvalan, Department of Protection of the Human Environment, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
D. Briggs, Nene Centre for Research, University College Northampton, Northampton, England
G. Zielhuis, Nijmegen University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Chapter 1 Health and Environment Analysis	p. 1
1.1 Background	p. 1
1.2 Tools for analysis and interpretation	p. 2
1.3 Health and Environment Analysis for Decision-Making Project	p. 4
1.4 The HEADLAMP process	p. 6
1.5 Summary	p. 8
1.6 References	p. 8
Chapter 2 Requirements for Successful Environmental Health Decision-Making	p. 11
2.1 The essence of environmental health decision-making	p. 11
2.2 Historical development of environmental health decision-making	p. 12
2.3 Examples of successful environmental health decision-making	p. 14
2.4 Difficulties and uncertainties in the decision-making process	p. 20
2.5 Conclusions	p. 22
2.6 References	p. 22
Chapter 3 The Need for Information: Environmental Health Indicators	p. 25
3.1 Introduction	p. 25
3.2 Indicators of development, environment and health	p. 26
3.3 A conceptual framework for environmental health indicators	p. 36
3.4 Using the DPSEEA framework	p. 43
3.5 Conclusions	p. 50
3.6 References	p. 51
Chapter 4 Methods for Building Environmental Health Indicators	p. 57
4.1 The challenge of environmental health indicators	p. 57
4.2 Types of indicator	p. 58
4.3 Steps in indicator development	p. 64
4.4 Towards a core set of environmental health indicators	p. 68
4.5 Conclusions	p. 74
4.6 References	p. 75
Chapter 5 Assessment of Exposure and Health Effects	p. 77
5.1 Introduction	p. 77
5.2 Exposure patterns and processes	p. 79
5.3 Sources of exposure data	p. 82
5.4 Environmental data quality	p. 86
5.5 Health assessment	p. 88
5.6 Health data	p. 90
5.7 Population and covariate data	p. 94
5.8 Georeferencing	p. 98
5.9 Conclusions	p. 99
5.10 References	p. 99
Chapter 6 Linking Environment and Health Data: Statistical and Epidemiological Issues	p. 103
6.1 Introduction	p. 103
6.2 Ecological analysis	p. 104
6.3 Time series analysis	p. 116
6.4 Quantitative risk assessment	p. 120
6.5 Conclusions	p. 127
6.6 References	p. 128
Chapter 7 Using Geographic Information Systems to Link Environment and Health Data	p. 133
7.1 Geographical information systems	p. 133
7.2 Visualisation	p. 134
7.3 Spatial data manipulation	p. 140
7.4 Spatial data analysis	p. 151
7.5 Conclusions	p. 153
7.6 References	p. 154
Chapter 8 Application of Headlamp in the Field	p. 159
8.1 Introduction	p. 159
8.2 From the global to the local perspective	p. 161
8.3 Field studies guidelines	p. 163
8.4 Field applications	p. 165
8.5 Field studies evaluation	p. 193
8.6 Conclusions	p. 201
8.7 References	p. 202
Chapter 9 The Headlamp Approach: A New Model for Environmental Health Decision-Making	p. 205
9.1 Information, decision-making and action	p. 205
9.2 Evidence begets action	p. 206
9.3 A sound basis of evidence	p. 209
9.4 A holistic approach	p. 213
9.5 A preventative approach	p. 214
9.6 An inclusive approach	p. 216
9.7 References	p. 220
Annex 1 Examples of Environmental Health Indicators	p. 223
Index	p. 273

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