Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Changing Environment

Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Changing Environment addresses the threats facing the rapidly changing world and provides guidance on how to manage risks in relation to population health. Unlike conventional and recognized risks (major, industrial, and natural), emerging risks are characterized by low or non-existent scientific knowledge, high levels of uncertainty as to how to counter them, and varying levels of acceptability by competent authorities and exposed populations. This book provides methods and global case studies on the transdisciplinary approaches used for the characterization, analysis, and management of emerging risks.

It will be useful for public health researchers, policymakers, and students, and will also be ideal for those working in emergency management, risk management, security, environmental health, nanomaterials, and food science.

Presents emerging risks from the technological, environmental, health, and energy sectors, as well as their social impactsContextualizes emerging risks as new threats, existing threats in new locations, and known issues, which are newly recognized as risks due to increased scientific knowledgeIncludes case studies from around the world to reinforce concepts

Introduction to Emerging Risks The exposome: a new tool for improved health risk assessment

Part 1: New Risks 1. Indoor Air and Public Health 2. Advanced manufacturing processes and technologies 3. Multi-dimensional Impacts of Nanotechnology on Public Health

Part 2: Known Risks in New Locations 4. The emergence of vector borne diseases in new location 5. Radioactive remains 6. Human spaces and inhumane species: social representations of the risk of invasion

Part 3: Known Issues Now Recognized as Risks Due to an Increase in Scientific Knowledge and/or A Change in the Perception of the Population 7. Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Organisms as Environmental Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Addressing Global Health Risks 8. Risk perception of pharmaceutical residues in the aquatic environment and precautionary measures 9. Chemistry and psychology, cross views on pesticides Risks 10. Assessment and management of risks associated with antibiotic resistance in the environment