Naslov
European Environment and Health Process and its impact on the Environmental Health Policy in Croatia

Autori
Petrović, Goranka ; Capak, Krunoslav

Izvornik
PERIODICUM BIOLOGORUM (0031-5362) 111 (2009); 21-28

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Environmental health, policy, legislation

Sažetak
Raising awareness of the importance of environment for human health re-sulted in several initiatives such as European Environment and Health Pro-cess and Environment for Europe Process. However, they should not be con-fused with the environmental health acquis requirements deriving from alarge number of EU Directives or Council Regulations in which importantaspects of protection of environment and human health are incorporated. In2003 the European Commission adopted the European Environment andHealth Strategy, which soon was followed by EU European Environmentand Health Action Plan 2004-2010 as an additional complementary systemto the existing EU Directives. On the other hand, National EnvironmentalHealth Action Plans were developed on the basis of the Environment andHealth Action Plan for Europe within the European Environment andHealth Process, as a tool to assist individual country in evaluating and im-proving the environmental health management system, but with no legalbinding at all.By reviewing the existing legal framework and policy documents, as wellas by investigating available instruments and capacity for the implementa-tion and evaluation of environmental health policy in Croatia, the actual»diagnosis and prognosis« of Croatian environmental health was assessed inthis paper. As an EU accession country, Croatian first priority is to fully har-monize its legislation with all EU directives concerning environmentalhealth, as a prerequisite for establishing relevant and highly operational sys-tem of environmental health characterized by high level of mutisectoral andinterdisciplinary cooperation at different levels.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Javno zdravstvo i zdravstvena zaštita

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