Environmental Health in Australia and New Zealand

This is an introductory textbook for the current and emerging needs of the environmental health professional. This book is unique in that its framework is based on Risk Assessment, a methodology adopted worldwide to address environmental health issues; and also in that it highlights environmental health issues applicable to Australia and New Zealand. This book provides a framework for assessing, correcting, controlling, and preventing those aspects of human health that are determined by physical, chemical, biological, and social factors in the environment.

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 their near northern neighbours. Environmental Health in Australia and New Zealand 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.

1 - Environmental Epidemiology
2 - Toxicology
3 - An Ecosystems Approach
4 - Demography
5 - Microbiology
6 - Risk Assessment
7 - Qualitative Research Methods
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
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

Scott Cameron is principal consultant to the Communicable Disease Control Branch of the South Australian Health Commission, and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Adelaide. Nancy Cromar is a lecturer in Environmental Health at the University of Adelaide. Howard Fallowfield is a Senior Lecturer in the Environmental Health Unit of the School of Medicine at Flinders University.