The goal of this paper is to present eco-innovation implementation in Poland and in some European countries. I assess factor influencing on ecoinnovation in small medium enterprises. Both current and expected energy and material prices are particularly important for pushing firms to reduce pollution, decrease hazardous substances and increase recyclability of products. Cost savings are an impor...

This paper details the development of a Masters in Health Informatics (MHI) program. It traces the design from conception through environmental scanning and curriculum development and into survey validation. One of the underlying characteristics identified in the analysis of other programs was that there seemed to be two subgroups or themes in health informatics programs: clinical and health ad...

Edi tor ’s Note : NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In these columns, EHSB and guest authors share insights and inf...

knowledge management is a process of using a source of strategic knowledge in organizations in order to find key information and organize and transfer it. many organizations adopted knowledge management systems to maintain their stability and usefulness. since there is occupational similarity between informatics experts and librarians, librarians can change to knowledge managers by being inform...

I am pleased to present " our " new strategic plan for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS 2012). I say that it's " our " plan because the entire document reflects tremendous thought, discussion, and sharing of ideas by hundreds of scientists and community stake holders, and it speaks to the entire field of environmental health research. This plan is about what we wil...

Uncertainty of environmental impacts is a major factor limiting the effectiveness of environmental assessment (EA) and is likely to increase in importance with the introduction of mandatory Strategic EA in the EU. A synthesis and evaluation of approaches to dealing with uncertainty was found to be lacking in the literature. Approaches to dealing with uncertainty in EA were identified from liter...