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Developing indicators for environment and health

J T Wills1, D J Briggs

  • 1Institute of Environmental and Policy Analysis, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom.

World Health Statistics Quarterly. Rapport Trimestriel De Statistiques Sanitaires Mondiales
|January 1, 1995
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Developing effective environmental indicators is crucial for policy-making. Current indicators often fail to reliably link environmental factors to human health, necessitating new approaches for better assessment.

Area of Science:

  • Environmental Science
  • Public Health Policy
  • Indicator Development

Background:

  • Policy-making requires robust indicators to link environmental status with public health outcomes.
  • Existing environmental indicators are often insufficient for accurately assessing human exposure and health impacts.
  • A causal chain model (source activity to emission, concentration, exposure) is presented for physical pollutants.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate the need for environmental indicators in policy-making.
  • To review current international, national, and local efforts in developing environmental indicators.
  • To identify gaps in indicators for assessing environment-health relationships.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review and survey of 26 indicator projects globally.

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  • Analysis of indicator development stages (source activity, emission, concentration, exposure).
  • Evaluation of existing health-related indicators for reliability in assessing human exposure.

    • Main Results:

    • Eight indicator sets are in use, but only partially health-related.
    • Most existing indicators focus on early stages of the causal chain (e.g., source activity).
    • Data availability and policy relevance vary across indicator development stages.

    Conclusions:

    • Current environmental indicators have limited utility for reliably assessing human exposure and health.
    • There is a significant need to develop specific indicators to evaluate environment-health relationships.
    • Future indicator development should prioritize stages closer to human exposure for greater policy impact.