…the Nation detailed numerous national health objectives. The 1990 sequel, Healthy People 2000, emphasized broad goals of increasing the span of healthy life, reducing health disparities among sub-populations, and improving access to…
…applicability of the outcome. Health Care No direct analogue to environmental risk assessment exists in the area of health care. Health care delivery is a more particular activity because the…
…reports from high-tech factory workers, we formed what is now the Santa Clara Center on Occupational Safety and Health (SCCOSH) in 1977. However, most political leaders, high- tech executives, the…
…Department of Environmental Health at the University of Washington and a practicing Family Physician. She has a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology and completed a National Institutes of Health…
…the second spurt is only about one-tenth of the first. Divorce, common in countries such as Canada, permits longitudinal polygamy, and consequently the final result may be the same. Canadian…
…pollution case described above is situated between two endpoints. At one extreme is inspection and enforcement of workplace health and safety regulations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA),…
…a cost-benefit analysis, the conclusion might be that no social response is warranted, if avoiding the problem costs 2 percent and incurring the problem costs only 1 percent. Costs could…
…the effect of price disparities between virgin and recovered materials, and to assess the effect of other economic factors associated with waste markets, such as additional processing and transportation costs….
…will trigger a catastrophic change, say to a severe Ice Age. So, I say, let us prepare, just in case. Purchase some insurance. We routinely do. Insurance, in its literal…
…in each region of the world’s oceans and debated how many might remain undiscovered. Known marine species total about 15,000. The meeting concluded that about 5,000 yet remain undiscovered. I…