Decision-Making in Environmental Health: From Evidence to Action

Description

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. It also discusses approaches to linkage analysis of grouped environmental and health data, including statistical and epidemiological issues and geographical information systems. This book will be an invaluable source of information for researchers in public health, epidemiology and social science, as well as for environmental health officers, especially those responsible for collecting and analysing environmental health data as part of local or national information systems.

""Decision-Making in Environmental Health highlights the need for information in order to make appropiate decisions on issues affecting environmental health. The book addresses fundamental matters such as indicators of environmental health, methods of data collection, and the assessment of exposure to and the health impact of different environmental risk factors. Overall, various practitioners should find this book a useful tool in collecting and analyzing environmental health information or simply conducting further research on a specific environmental health topic." - "Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College