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: Hardcover
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781572302334
Subjects: Environmental factors; Occupational / industrial health & safety; Sociology; Industrial hygiene; Occupational Health And Safety; United States; Technology; Political aspects; Nature/Ecology; USA; Environmental Science; General; Occupational & Industrial Medicine; Technology / Industrial Health & Safety; Environmental health; Industrial Health & Safety; Government policy
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.