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Article: Environmental health policy decisions: the role of uncertainty in economic analysis.(includes related article on the importance of flexible timing in formulating environmental health policy)
- Article from:
- Journal of Environmental Health
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
- Author:
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Introduction
Environmental health professionals will be asked increasingly to participate in accounting for how dollars are spent in the areas of human health and environmental protection. What are the net benefits, for example, of sanitation? Are case management methods cost-effective strategies for helping lead-burdened children? This kind of accounting will be both inevitable and vital in regulatory response. As a result, environmental health professionals may find that, increasingly, they need to secure a place for the human health aspects of environmental economics and management. For example, reducing the risk of human exposure to benzene was clearly ...