Environmental health: Assessing risks to society

Autor:	Gopal K. Kanji, Parvesh K. Chopra
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Industrialisation Global issue Agriculture business.industry Environmental health Urbanization Stressor Population growth Business General Business Management and Accounting Psychosocial Built environment
Zdroj:	Total Quality Management & Business Excellence. 22:461-489
ISSN:	1478-3371 1478-3363
DOI:	10.1080/14783363.2010.545554
Popis:	Natural and built environment systems that sustains lives by providing healthy living surroundings is under a tremendous pressure from various stressors such as rapid population growth, urbanisation, commercialisation of agriculture, industrialisation, psychosocial factors and the like. Environmental health is now a global issue wherein humans act both as the destroyers and the victims. All types of environmental pollutions (air, water, soil, for example) have deleterious effects on human health in manifold magnitudes across the globe. Therefore, it is essential to have a clear understanding of the nature and extent to which a country is running a risk of environmental health hazards to its society. Considering this in mind, the present paper introduces a new way of looking and assessing the health effects of environmental hazards and pollutions. This new measure, based on a holistic view and system modelling approach, conceptualises, measures and facilitates the management of the multifarious phenomenon ...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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