Download or read book Canadian Handbook on Health Impact Assessment, Vol. 3: written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook on roles for health professionals in health impact assessment begins with a chapter on building values into health & environmental assessments. Subsequent chapters cover the following topics: components of the risk management decision-making process; a social science perspective on social impact assessment approaches in environmental impact assessment protocols; human health evaluation in environmental assessment, including epidemiological study design, data sources, and guidelines for health impact assessment; methodologies for technological risk assessment; public health integration in environmental impact assessment; biostatistical concepts & methods; the role of the occupational hygienist in environmental impact assessment; and the contribution of economics to the environmental valuation process.