Health & environmental impact assessment : an integrated approach / British Medical Association.

By:

British Medical Association

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Environment and health seriesPublisher: London : Earthscan Publications Ltd, 1998Description: xii, 243 pages : illustrations, 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1853835412 (paperback)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 362.19698 HEA DS0903

Contents:

Board of Science and Education -- Working Party -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- British Medical Association -- BMA policy on the environment -- Doctors, human health and the environment -- Aims, scope and structure of the report -- Ch. 2. Management of the environment to safeguard human health: the background -- Defining the environment -- Sustainbility -- Human health and the environment -- UK institutional framework for the protection of the environment and health -- European action -- UK National Environmental Health Action Plan -- Environmental Health Commission: Agendas for Change -- Planning of new development -- Ch. 3. Environmental impact assessment: development and current UK provision -- Introduction -- Environmental impact assessment -- Strategic environmental assessment -- Social impact assessment -- Health impact assessment -- European EIA and SEA legislation -- UK regulations -- Conclusion -- Ch. 4. inclusion of human health in the environmental impact assessment process -- Introduction -- Incorporating HIA with EIA -- EIA process -- Future needs of HIA -- Examples of possible health impacts of UK projects -- Examples of the health impacts of UK policy -- Ch. 5. Wider social and economic issues -- need for comprehensive health impact assessment -- Methodological guiding principles -- consequences of ignoring health impact -- Health impact assessment and health economics -- Ch. 6. Human health and the environment: policies for the next millennium -- Introduction -- Environmental health -- Environmental impact assessments -- way ahead -- Recommendations. App. 1. evolution of public health legislation -- App. 2. Duties of a doctor in occupational medicine -- App. 3. Recommended target maximum levels for pollutants listed in the UK National Air Quality Strategy -- App. 4. Life-cycle assessment App. 5. Environmental impact assessment: the global scene -- App. 6. Coverage of impacts on human health in UK environmental impact statements: a review.

Summary: An analysis of environmental impacts on human health. It provides a discussion of how to integrate and the measures needed to mitigate the effects.

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Board of Science and Education --
Working Party --
Ch. 1. Introduction --
British Medical Association --
BMA policy on the environment --
Doctors, human health and the environment --
Aims, scope and structure of the report --
Ch. 2. Management of the environment to safeguard human health: the background --
Defining the environment --
Sustainbility --
Human health and the environment --
UK institutional framework for the protection of the environment and health --
European action --
UK National Environmental Health Action Plan --
Environmental Health Commission: Agendas for Change --
Planning of new development --
Ch. 3. Environmental impact assessment: development and current UK provision --
Introduction --
Environmental impact assessment --
Strategic environmental assessment --
Social impact assessment --
Health impact assessment --
European EIA and SEA legislation --
UK regulations --
Conclusion --
Ch. 4. inclusion of human health in the environmental impact assessment process --
Introduction --
Incorporating HIA with EIA --
EIA process --
Future needs of HIA --
Examples of possible health impacts of UK projects --
Examples of the health impacts of UK policy --
Ch. 5. Wider social and economic issues --
need for comprehensive health impact assessment --
Methodological guiding principles --
consequences of ignoring health impact --
Health impact assessment and health economics --
Ch. 6. Human health and the environment: policies for the next millennium --
Introduction --
Environmental health --
Environmental impact assessments --
way ahead --
Recommendations. App. 1. evolution of public health legislation --
App. 2. Duties of a doctor in occupational medicine --
App. 3. Recommended target maximum levels for pollutants listed in the UK National Air Quality Strategy --
App. 4. Life-cycle assessment App. 5. Environmental impact assessment: the global scene --
App. 6. Coverage of impacts on human health in UK environmental impact statements: a review.

An analysis of environmental impacts on human health. It provides a discussion of how to integrate and the measures needed to mitigate the effects.

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