Decision-making in environmental health : from evidence to action / edited by C. Corvalán, D. Briggs, and G. Zielhuis.

"Published on behalf of the World Health Organization."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Health and environment analysis -- ch. 2. Requirements for successful environmental decison-making -- ch. 3. The need for information: environmental health indicators -- ch. 4. Methods for building environmental health indicators -- ch. 5. Assessment of exposure and health effects -- ch. 6. Linking environment and health data: statistical and epidemiological issues -- ch. 7. Using geographic information systems to link environment and health data -- ch. 8. Application of headlamp in the field -- ch. 9. The headlamp approach: a new model for environmental health decison-making -- Annex 1. Examples of environmental health indicators