Environmental Health in Australia and New Zealand is an introductory yet comprehensive textbook for the current and emerging needs of the environmental health professional, written by experts in the field.

The book is unique in that its framework is based on Risk Assessment, a methodology adopted world wide to address environmental health issues; and also as it highlights environmental health issues applicable to Australia, New Zealand and our near northern neighbours. It provides environmental health students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and health professionals with the means for assessing, correcting, controlling and preventing those aspects of human health that are determined by physical, chemical, biological, social and psychosocial factors in the environment.

• The only text of its kind, written specifically for Australian and New Zealand environmental health students
• Divided clearly into three major sections followed by a summary chapter to address future directions for environmental health. The three major sections are: Tools of Environmental Health; Management Mechanisms, and Issues in Environmental Health
• The experience and extensive research of the author team make the book an authoritative reference for current and emerging issues in environmental health

• The only text of its kind, written specifically for Australian and New Zealand environmental health students
• Divided clearly into three major sections followed by a summary chapter to address future directions for environmental health. The three major sections are: Tools of Environmental Health; Management Mechanisms, and Issues in Environmental Health
• The experience and extensive research of the author team make the book an authoritative reference for current and emerging issues in environmental health

Part 1: Tools of Environmental Health

1. Environmental Epidemiology

2. Toxicology

3. An Ecosystems Approach

4. Demography

5. Microbiology

6. Risk Assessment

7. Qualitative Research Methods

Part 2: Management Mechanisms

8. Policy in the Government Context

9. The Psychology of Risk Judgements and Decisions

10. The Policy and Practice of Environmental Reform

11. Public Health Law

12. Monitoring and Surveillance

13. Communicable Disease Control

14. Health Promotion and Environmental Health

Part 3: Issues in Environmental Health

15. Food Safety

16. Water: Health and Resource Issues

17. Air Quality and Health

18. Solid and Hazardous Wastes

19. The Assessment and Management of Contaminated Land

20. Hazardous Chemicals

21. Environmental Health and Radiation Protection

22. Noise

23. The Built Environment

24. Remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities: Issues and Strategies

25. Environmental Health: A Global Perspective

Dr. Nancy Cromar —   Senior Lecturer, Department of Environmental Health, Flinders University

Scott Cameron — Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, University of Adelaide

Dr Howard Fallowfield — Associate Professor and Head, Deptartment of Environmental Health, Flinders University

Introduction

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Case Studies

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Introduction

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Case studies