Front Cover -- Half Title -- Understanding Public Health -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Overview of the book -- Section 1 Introduction -- Chapter 1 Introduction to environmental health policy -- Chapter 2 The emergence of risk assessment -- Section 2 Assessing environmental health risks -- Chapter 3 A model for human health risk assessment -- Chapter 4 Hazard identification -- Chapter 5 The dose-response relationship -- Chapter 6 Exposure assessment -- Chapter 7 Risk characterization -- Section 3 Rational action and environmental health policy -- Chpater 8 Economic appraisal -- Chapter 9 The management of ionizing radiation -- Chpater 10 Environment and safety -- Section 4 Beyond the rational action approach -- Chapter 11 An introduction to alternative theories of risk -- Chapter 12 Risk perception and the psychometric paradigm -- Chapter 13 Cultural theory -- Section 5 Other approaches -- Chapter 14 Environmental, social and health impact assessment -- Chapter 15 Environmental risk ranking -- Chapter 16 Alternatives assessment to precaution -- Section 6 Making policy -- Chapter 17 From risk communication to participatory decision making -- Chapter 18 Philosophy, politics and prejudice -- Section 7 Initiatives - local to global -- Chapter 19 Issues of local policy -- Chapter 20 Issues of global policy -- Glossary -- Index -- Back Cover.