Preventing exposure to environmental hazards


  • Protecting against environmental hazards

Context

Despite the successes of modern medical technologies, little is known about the basic chemistry or physiology behind human exposures to environmental health hazards. A new science is required based upon integrative environmental approaches with multidisciplinary perspectives to replace traditional science that looks at parts of the whole from a single discipline's perspective.

Implementation

In the last 10 years a number of issues of environmental health hazards have been addressed internationally, for example: the successful elimination of lead from gasoline and paint; the prohibition of the use of asbestos in construction; the elimination of DDT from use in the US; the banning of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) production in the US; and also in the USA, the passage of the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act to decrease pesticides in the diet of children. By reducing or eliminating these toxic exposures, substantial burdens of disease have been addressed in the human environment.

Narrower

  1. Taking measures to mitigate the health effects of increasing ultraviolet radiation
  2. Suppressing information concerning environmental hazards
  3. Researching exposure to environmental hazards
  4. Reporting groundwater pollution hazards
  5. Reducing health risks from environmental pollution
  6. Reducing environmental risk of cancer
  7. Reducing environmental degradation by automobiles
  8. Reaching consensus on environmental hazards
  9. Protecting from marine contaimination hazards
  10. Protecting against water-related hazards and dangers
  11. Protecting against railway environmental hazards
  12. Protecting against hazards to human health in the natural environment
  13. Protecting against environmental hazards of pharmaceutical products
  14. Protecting against environmental hazards of nuclear power production
  15. Protecting against environmental hazards of new species introduction
  16. Protecting against environmental hazards of empolderment of wetlands
  17. Protecting against environmental hazards of coal energy
  18. Protecting against environmental hazards from transport systems
  19. Protecting against environmental hazards from plastic materials
  20. Protecting against environmental hazards from mines
  21. Protecting against environmental hazards from manufacturing industries
  22. Protecting against environmental hazards from logging
  23. Protecting against environmental hazards from industry
  24. Protecting against environmental hazards from energy industries
  25. Protecting against environmental hazards from chemicals
  26. Protecting against environmental hazards from animals
  27. Protecting against environmental hazards from agricultural and pastoral activities
  28. Protecting against environmental hazards due to economic development
  29. Producing environmentally sound computing equipment
  30. Preventing child exposure to environmental hazards
  31. Mitigating geological hazards
  32. Linking environmental hazards to endocrine disruption
  33. Involving local communities in contingency planning on environmental hazards
  34. Identifying environmental hazards
  35. Expressing concern over environmental hazards
  36. Expanding public awareness of environmental health hazards
  37. Evaluating cognitive effects of environmental health hazards
  38. Ensuring health programmes reach all areas and communities
  39. Developing an integrated global observing strategy
  40. Assessing financing to reduce health risks from environmental pollution and hazards
  41. Adopting precautionary approach to pollution


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