Environmental Risk Management Report

Assignment Task :

1: Report - Environmental Risk Assessment Individual

Learning Outcomes

A. Understand the concept of environmental factors influencing health, and the relevance to public health from the global to the local levels.

B. Describe key agencies, institutional structures, political processes, influences on and challenges for environmental health.

D. Understand the way in which globalisation and the social, economic and political determinants of health influence disease, including identification of vulnerable groups.

E. Understand the concept of sustainable development. F. Identify and critique ethical elements relevant to environmental health protections, policies, and industry practices, from global to localscale.

G. Critically analyse the relationships between environmental risk factors and social, economic and political determinants of illness and injury from global to local scale. Submission Due Sunday following the end of Module 4 at 11:55pm AEST/AEDT* Weighting 30% Total Marks 100 marks *Please Note: This time is Sydney time (AEST or AEDT).

Please convert to your own time zone (e.g. Adelaide = 11:25pm). PUBH6002_Assessment 1 Brief Page 2 of 6 Instructions: Choose a specific geographic region and one of the following environmental health issues:

• Water(safe drinking water or ambient/environmental water)
• Sanitation (wastewatercontrol)
• Air quality (indoor oroutdoor)
• Solid wastemanagement
• Hazardous/toxic substances
• Noise
• Disasters
• Food safety
• Traffic accidents
• Vector-borne disease
• Climate andgeography

Part 2:How is the environmental health issue currently being managed? What is the role of existing health agencies and other agencies, key stakeholders including community groups, critical infrastructure and legislative and regulatory measures at the federal and state level?

• What suggestions do you propose to address gaps in current policy, regulation and management for this environmental health issue? PUBH6002_Assessment 1 Brief Page 3 of 6 Assessment Criteria: Assignments will be assessed in terms of the extent to which students demonstrate:
• Knowledge and understanding of evidence-based approaches to environmental risk assessment and management (25%)
• Critical analysis (30% in total) o Critical analysis of the driving forces (economic, social, political, institutional, developmental) behind the environmental determinants (10%) o Critical analysis of the impact of the environmental risk upon the geographic population (10%) o Critical analysis of the impact of the environmental risk upon equity issues (10%)
• Analysis of evidence to recommend changesin current policy, regulation and management