Decision-making in environmental health.

Despite our current knowledge about harmful exposures obtained from environmental epidemiology studies, preventive action is lacking in many fronts. To reverse this trend, results from environmental epidemiological studies must be translated from theory into public health practice more efficiently. This process requires epidemiology to provide the right type of data for decision-making and to communicate the results of environmental epidemiology studies in a form understandable to the community at large and to those empowered to take action.

Framework for the development of environmental health indicators.

Environmental health indicators provide information about scientifically-based linkages between environment and health. This information can be used for environmental health management and decision-making. Environmental health indicators are rendered more complex than either environmental indicators or health indicators because they must take account of factors such as the variability in susceptibility in individuals and variability in co-exposures.

Role of migrant factors in work-related fatalities in Australia.

Objectives: The importance of workers' language and migration characteristics to safety in the work environment has been debated but remains unclear. This study examined the role of these factors in the occurrence of work-related fatalities in Australia.

Methods: The study was based on an investigation of all work-related fatalities occurring in Australia during 1982-1984.

Prediction of silicosis and lung cancer in the Australian labor force exposed to silica.

Empirical models for risk, based on recently published epidemiologic data, and simple prediction formulas were used to predict the occurrence of silicosis and lung cancer in the Australian labor force currently exposed to crystalline silica dust. As a result of an 0.9 (range 0.

The incidence of malignant mesothelioma in Australia 1982-1988.

From 1980 to 1985, the Australian Mesothelioma Surveillance Program, and since 1986, the Australian Mesothelioma Register, have been collecting data on all cases of malignant mesothelioma that could be ascertained in Australia. Incidence rates were calculated on 854 Program and 696 Register cases (total 1271) diagnosed in Australia between January 1, 1982 and December 31, 1988. Australia has one of the highest national rates of mesothelioma in the world (15.