Work, Health, and Environment
Subtitle: Old Problems, New Solutions
Contributors: Charles Levenstein (Editor); John Wooding (Editor)
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Published: July 18, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781572302341
Subjects: Environmental factors; Occupational / industrial health & safety; United States; Industrial hygiene; Environmental health; Technology; Environmental Studies; Nature/Ecology; USA; Environmental Science; Industrial Health & Safety; Occupational & Industrial Medicine; Technology / Industrial Health & Safety; Government policy; Political aspects
First sentence: Economists addressing the issue of occupational disease typically take on the role of administrative analyst, using such well-worn tools as cost/benefit analysis or cost-effectiveness analysis and attempting to extrapolate from scientific studies and industry estimates of the cost of regulatory measures in order to give guidance to decision makers.