strategy
Preventing exposure to environmental hazards
Synonyms:
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. Broader:
Protecting against hazardsProtecting against hazardsProtecting global environmentAdvancing environmental healthManaging the environment Narrower:
Adopting precautionary approach to pollutionReporting groundwater pollution hazardsProtecting against environmental hazards from chemicalsProtecting against environmental hazards from energy industriesProtecting against environmental hazards from transport systemsProtecting against environmental hazards from plastic materialsProtecting against environmental hazards from animalsProtecting against environmental hazards from agricultural and pastoral activitiesProtecting against environmental hazards from manufacturing industriesProtecting against environmental hazards of coal energyAssessing financing to reduce health risks from environmental pollution and hazardsInvolving local communities in contingency planning on environmental hazardsExpanding public awareness of environmental health hazardsIdentifying environmental hazardsReducing health risks from environmental pollutionEvaluating cognitive effects of environmental health hazardsLinking environmental hazards to endocrine disruptionLinking environmental hazards to endocrine disruptionReducing environmental risk of cancerReducing environmental degradation by automobilesProducing environmentally sound computing equipmentReaching consensus on environmental hazardsSuppressing information concerning environmental hazardsResearching exposure to environmental hazardsProtecting against railway environmental hazardsProtecting against railway environmental hazardsProtecting against railway environmental hazardsProtecting against environmental hazards of new species introductionProtecting against environmental hazards due to economic developmentProtecting against environmental hazards from minesProtecting against environmental hazards from loggingProtecting against environmental hazards of nuclear power productionPreventing child exposure to environmental hazardsTaking measures to mitigate the health effects of increasing ultraviolet radiationMitigating geological hazardsMitigating geological hazardsDeveloping an integrated global observing strategyEnsuring health programmes reach all areas and communitiesProtecting against environmental hazards of empolderment of wetlandsProtecting against hazards to human health in the natural environmentProtecting against hazards to human health in the natural environment Organizations:
Global Environmental Epidemiology Network Subjects:
Societal Problems → PreventionSocietal Problems → Hazards
Environment → Environment
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
