Environmental Health Indicators

Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309165556

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Environmental Health Indicators by Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine Pdf

This report is the summary of the fourth workshop of The Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine. Environmental Indicators: Bridging the Chasm Between Public Health and the Environment, continues the overarching themes of previous workshops on rebuilding the unity of health and the environment. The purpose of the workshop was to bring people together from many fields, including federal, state, local, and private partners in environmental health, to examine potential leading indicators of environmental health, to discuss the proposed national health tracking effort, to look into monitoring systems of other nations, and to foster a dialogue on the steps for establishing a nationwide environmental health monitoring system. This workshop brought together a number of experts who presented, discussed, and debated the issues surrounding the implementation of a monitoring system.

Author : Robert Stephen McColl,University of Waterloo. Institute for Risk Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Environmental health
ISBN : 0969287097

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Development of Environmental Health Status Indicators by Robert Stephen McColl,University of Waterloo. Institute for Risk Research Pdf

Author : Lorraine Stewart,Patrick Joseph Saunders,John Kemm,Great Britain. Department of Health,Health Protection Agency (Great Britain),Health Protection Agency (Great Britain). Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards,West Midlands Public Health Observatory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Children
ISBN : 0859516830

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Children's Environment and Health Action Plan (CEHAP) by Lorraine Stewart,Patrick Joseph Saunders,John Kemm,Great Britain. Department of Health,Health Protection Agency (Great Britain),Health Protection Agency (Great Britain). Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards,West Midlands Public Health Observatory Pdf

Author : Robert H. Armon,Osmo Hänninen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401794992

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Environmental Indicators by Robert H. Armon,Osmo Hänninen Pdf

Environmental indicators are the first line of warning against hazards caused by humans or nature catastrophes to prevent diseases and death of living organisms. The present book covers a large variety of environmental indicators from physical-chemistry through economical, bioinformatics, electromagnetic irradiation and health aspects, all dealing with environmental pollution. This volume has been intended to environmentalists, engineers, scientists and policy makers as well to anybody interested in the latest development in the indicator field.

Author : Christina H. Drew,Xavier Bonnefoy,Jaco van Duivenboden
Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789289013574

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Guidelines for Evaluation of Environmental Health Services by Christina H. Drew,Xavier Bonnefoy,Jaco van Duivenboden Pdf

A practical guide to concepts, methods, and instruments for conducting an evaluation of environmental health services. Noting that managers frequently overlook the importance of evaluation, the book also performs a persuasive function, serving to illustrate the advantages of evaluation for purposes ranging from the justification of continuing expenditure to assurance that public health is being adequately protected from hazards in food, air or water. Throughout the book, examples of evaluations conducted in European countries are used to show how different approaches work to resolve specific practical problems. The book has six chapters. The first provides a general introduction to the purpose, principles and components of evaluation, as well as procedures that are frequently used. Chapter two applies these general principles to the specific setting of environmental health services, where process, impact, relevance, and adequacy of services may need to be assessed. Factors that make such services difficult to evaluate through traditional mechanisms are also briefly discussed. Against this background, a chapter on data and indicators provides detailed advice on the choice of indicators, concentrating on the use of process, environmental health, and urban indicators. Chapter four, on instruments for evaluation, outlines the strengths and weaknesses of several methods of data collection, giving particular attention to tools for economic analysis and qualitative evaluation. The remaining chapters cover the use of results in management decisions and set out five case studies of evaluations recently conducted in Europe.

Author : D. Briggs,C. Corvalan,G. Zielhuis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-04-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781135801595

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Decision-Making in Environmental Health by D. Briggs,C. Corvalan,G. Zielhuis Pdf

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 : Sven E. Jorgensen,Fu-Liu Xu,Robert Costanza
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0203490185

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Handbook of Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health by Sven E. Jorgensen,Fu-Liu Xu,Robert Costanza Pdf

The field of ecosystem health explores the interactions between natural systems, human health, and social organization. As decision makers require a sound, modular approach to environmental management and sustainable development, ecosystem health assessment indicators are increasingly used across any number of applications. The Handbook of Ecologic

Author : South Australia. Department of Health
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Environmental health
ISBN : 0730898520

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Developing Local Government Environmental Health Indicators for South Australia by South Australia. Department of Health Pdf

Author : William A. Thomas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781468416985

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Indicators of Environmental Quality by William A. Thomas Pdf

Researchers and agencies collect reams of objective data and authors publish volumes of subjective prose in attempts to explain what is meant by environmental quality. Still, we have no universally recognized methods for combining our quantitative measures with our qualitative concepts of environ ment. Not all of our environmental goals should be reduced to mere numbers, but many of them can be; and without these quantitative terms, we have no way of defining our present position nor of selecting positions we wish to attain on any logically established scale of environmen tal values. Stated simply, in our zeal to measure our environment we often forget that masses of numbers describing a system are insufficient to understand it or to be used in selecting goals and priorities for expending our economic and human resources. Attempts at quantitatively describing environmental quality, rather than merely measuring different environmental variables, are relatively recent. This condensing of data into the optimum number of terms with maximum information content is a truly interdisciplinary challenge. When Oak Ridge National Laboratory initiated its Environmental Program in early 1970 under a grant from the National Science Foundation, the usefulness of environmental indicators in assessing the effects of technology was included as one of the initial areas for investigation. James L. Liverman, through his encouragement and firm belief that these indicators are indispensable if we are to resolve our complex environmental problems, deserves much of the credit for the publication of this book.

Author : Sven Jørgensen,Liu Xu,Robert Costanza
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781439858516

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Handbook of Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health by Sven Jørgensen,Liu Xu,Robert Costanza Pdf

Continuing in the tradition of its bestselling predecessor, the Handbook of Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health, Second Edition brings together world-class editors and contributors who have been at the forefront of ecosystem health assessment research for decades, to provide a sound approach to environmental management and sust

Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309264143

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U.S. Health in International Perspective by National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries Pdf

The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264012196

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Environment at a Glance OECD Environmental Indicators by OECD Pdf

This book includes key environmental indicators endorsed by OECD Environment Ministers and major environmental indicators from the OECD Core Set.

Author : Annemiek J. P. Overveld,B. A. M. Staatsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Environmental health
ISBN : OCLC:66400929

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Development of Environmental Health Indicators for EU Countries by Annemiek J. P. Overveld,B. A. M. Staatsen Pdf

Author : Tomás Hák,Bedrich Moldan,Arthur Lyon Dahl
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781597266284

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Sustainability Indicators by Tomás Hák,Bedrich Moldan,Arthur Lyon Dahl Pdf

While the concept of sustainability has been widely embraced, it has been only vaguely defined and is exceedingly difficult to measure. Sustainability indicators are critical to making the broad concept of sustainability operational by providing specific measures by which decision makers and the public can judge progress. Sustainability Indicators defines the present state of the art in indicator development. It presents a comprehensive assessment of the science behind various indicators, while placing special emphasis on their use as communications tools. The contributors draw on their experience as academics and practitioners to describe the conceptual challenges to measuring something as complex as sustainability at local, regional, national, and global scales. The book also reviews existing indicators to assess how they could be better employed, considering which indicators are overused and which have been underutilized. Sustainability Indicators will help planners and policy makers find indicators that are ready for application and relevant to their needs, and will help researchers identify the unresolved issues where progress is most urgently needed. All readers will find advice as to the most effective ways to use indicators to support decision making.

Author : David John Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Children
ISBN : 9241590599

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Making a Difference by David John Briggs Pdf