{"title":"Four Suggestions for Improving Environmental Health Policy","authors":"Kenneth W. Chilton","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.246437","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The paper focuses on four questions that affect the utilization of environmental health science and research for policy making and regulatory decision making. These questions are meant to be thought provoking though some may appear a bit rhetorical. The four questions (or issues) examined are: 1) When analyzing an environmental health risk from a particular contaminant, shouldn't the complete picture of risks and benefits of the agent be considered? 2) How important is it to have all elements of an environmental health risk assessment grounded in solid science? 3) Does the environmental health sciences community have a responsibility to foster accurate communication of risks, responding to high profile statements that are incomplete or inaccurate? 4) When communicating environmental health risks, should these risks be placed in the context of more commonly experienced risks?","PeriodicalId":348929,"journal":{"name":"Weidenbaum Center at Washington U. in St. Louis","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Weidenbaum Center at Washington U. in St. Louis","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.246437","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The paper focuses on four questions that affect the utilization of environmental health science and research for policy making and regulatory decision making. These questions are meant to be thought provoking though some may appear a bit rhetorical. The four questions (or issues) examined are: 1) When analyzing an environmental health risk from a particular contaminant, shouldn't the complete picture of risks and benefits of the agent be considered? 2) How important is it to have all elements of an environmental health risk assessment grounded in solid science? 3) Does the environmental health sciences community have a responsibility to foster accurate communication of risks, responding to high profile statements that are incomplete or inaccurate? 4) When communicating environmental health risks, should these risks be placed in the context of more commonly experienced risks?
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