Local environmental health planning : guidance for local and national authorities / by Ian D. MacArthur.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

MacArthur, Ian (Ian Douglas)

Contributor:

Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.

Series:

WHO regional publications. European series ; no. 95.

WHO regional publications. European series ; no. 95

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental health.

Health planning.

Physical Description:

x, 112 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen : Regional Office for Europe, World Health Organization, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

International initiatives, such as Agenda 21, have led to local action on the environment and health. These local initiatives seek to improve the health and quality of life of the local population by involving the community in decision-making and by integrating social, economic and environmental concerns into policy and action. In the WHO European Region, agreements reached at Region-wide ministerial conferences led to the development of national environmental health action plans (NEHAPs), which in turn has created a framework for the development of local environmental health action plans (LEHAPs). This book provides an analysis of existing local planning processes and initiatives in the WHO European Region, identifies their common features and describes how they interrelate with and support NEHAPs. Based on a two-year project carried out in the eastern half of the Region, this book also provides guidance and options for the development of LEHAPs that give the levels of flexibility necessary to ensure that a bottom-up planning process can occur. This publication addresses both local and national policy-makers and professionals in the environmental, health and other sectors. It provides valuable reading for anyone interested in integrated action to improve and protect the environment and health.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Part 1. Background

Introduction

1. The environmental health approach

2. International frameworks, national plans and local action

Part 2. Local Environmental Health Planning

3. The LEHAP planning process

Part 3. The National - Local Relationship

4. National perspectives

5. Institutional development

6. Supportive action at the national level

References

Annex 1. LEHAP coordinators/contact points

Annex 2. Participants at the review meeting for the WHO/Know How Fund project

Annex 3. Report to the City Council coordinating the development of the "Environment and Health" City Action Plan.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-102).

ISBN:

1-280-06079-4

9786610060795

92-890-1399-0

OCLC:

437176285