

An edition of Environmental Burden of Disease Assessment (2013)
By Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson,Angela Brammer,Christopher Davidson,Tiina Folley,Frederic Launay,Jens Thomsen
Publish Date
2013
Publisher
Springer London, Limited
Language
eng
Pages
521
Description:
This publication characterizes the environmental burden of disease in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), measured by the excess number of deaths and illnesses in the population due to exposure to environmental hazards. The robust methods used in this risk analysis can be applied to any country or region. This publication documents the systematic, multi-step process used to identify environmental priorities and the detailed methods used to quantify the disease burden attributable to each risk. Based on the results of the burden of disease assessment, the publication summarizes the subsequent steps that are recommended to further reduce the burden of disease resulting from various environmental risk factors.
subjects: Environmentally induced diseases, Human ecology, Public health, asia, Environmental health, Case studies, Environmental Illness, Epidemiology, Environmental Exposure, Risk Assessment, United arab emirates, social conditions, Public health, Ecology, Euthenics, Nature and nurture, Adaptation (Biology), Environmental sciences, Environmental law, Environmental Medicine, Pollution, Pollution, general, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice