Public Health Papers - Intersectoral Coordination and Health in Environmental Management
İÇİNDEKİLERCONTENTS Introduction 1. Background to the study........ Environment and public policy...... Environment, health, and the relativity of norms Antecedents of the study........ Development of the study....... Content of country reports: preliminary model . 2. Descriptions and comparisons of national structures and processes.................. Country clusters.............. Structural features............. Distribution of environmental responsibilities Emergence of national environmental organizations . . Key characteristics of national environmental coordination mechanisms............. Relations between governmental levels...... Health aspects of environmental management Resource aspects of coordinative mechanisms Summary of structural features......... Process features.............. Public opinion and governmental leadership..... Institutionalized communications for coordination . . Decision-making processes.......... 3. Factors influencing intersectoral coordination...... Factors pertaining to operational and nonoperational systems................. Contextual factors............. Basic policy factors............ Structural factors............. Process factors.............. Resource factors Governmental relationships in coordination systems Role of health authorities......... 4. Conclusions.............. Progress made in achieving intersectoral coordination Requirements for intersectoral coordination . . . Public opinion and governmental leadership . . . Documentation of environmental policies . . . Institutionalization of environmental coordination Technical capacity........... "Vertical" coordination Resource needs............ Further steps............. Health aspects of the environment...... Needs for knowledge.......... Problems of the least developed countries . . . Annex 1. Descriptions of national systems by countries Introduction.............. Country statements............ Canada ............... Chile................ China................ Czechoslovakia............. Denmark............... Egypt................ Federal Republic of Germany........ Hong Kong.............. India................ Iran (1978).............. Iraq................ Japan................ Mexico............... Nepal................ New Zealand............. Pakistan............... Poland............... Sri Lanka.............. Turkey............... United States of America......... Yugoslavia.............. Annex 2. Analysis of explanatory variables NOTLARAn Examination of National Experience |