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• Title:Environmental health policy / David Ball.
  
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• Author/Creator:Ball, David (David J.)
  
• Published/Created:Maidenhead ; New York : McGraw Hill/Open University Press, 2006.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA30 .B187 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Medical Subjects:Environmental Health.
  Health Policy.
  Risk Management.
  
• Description:ix, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Understanding public health.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780335218431 (pbk.)
  0335218431 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:1. Introduction to environmental health policy
  2. emergence of risk assessment
  3. model for human health risk assessment
  4. Hazard identification
  5. dose-response relationship
  6. Exposure assessment
  7. Risk characterization
  8. Economic appraisal
  9. management of ionizing radiation
  10. Environment and safety
  11. introduction to alternative theories of risk
  12. Risk perception and the psychometric paradigm
  13. Cultural theory
  14. Environmental, social and health impact assessment
  15. Environmental risk ranking
  16. Alternatives assessment to precaution
  17. From risk communication to participatory decision making
  18. Philosophy, politics and prejudice
  19. Issues of local policy
  20. Issues of global policy.