Environmental health indicators : bridging the chasm of public health and the environment : workshop summary / Lynn Goldmann and Christine M. Coussens, editors ; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldman, Lynn.

Coussens, Christine.

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental health--Congresses.

Environmental health.

Health risk assessment--Congresses.

Health risk assessment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (117 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers ""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""Workshop Objectives and Charge to Participants""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Bridging the Chasm Between Health and the Environment: Science and Policy Context""; ""2 Overview of Environmental Health Monitoring and the Use of Indicators""; ""3 Environmental Health Monitoring at the Federal Level""; ""4 Needed Integration of Other Federal Agencies, State Agencies, and Nongovernmental Organizations to Build a Monitoring System""; ""5 The Challenges Ahead""; ""Abstracts""; ""References""; ""Appendixes""

""Appendix A Workshop Agenda""""Appendix B Speakers and Panelists""; ""Appendix C Workshop Participants""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-99).

ISBN:

9786610175949

9780309165556

0309165555

9781280175947

128017594X

9780309544542

0309544548

OCLC:

923272911