Local action on outdoor air pollution to improve public health
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Quantifying the health impacts of outdoor air pollution: useful estimations for public health action.
The typical procedural steps in HIA include screening, scoping, assessment of health effects, recommending alternatives and mitigations, reporting and monitoring. Each step helps predict or foresee potential effects of policy decisions on a population's health. In specific, quantitative risk assessment, an essential component of HIA, provides estimations of the potential health risks or impacts...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Public Health
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1661-8556,1661-8564
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-018-1104-8