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Environmental health practice

2009· article· en· W947200670 on OpenAlex
Lynn R. Goldman, Elma B. Torres

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHealthcare and Environmental Waste Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEnvironmental planningGeography

Abstract

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Abstract Environmental health practice occurs within the context of physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial processes in the environment that impact health, and actions to modify these factors to promote health for present and future generations. There are many professional disciplines and players in the environmental health practice arena, all of whom have important roles in the process. Environmental health practice is a three-phase process involving health impact assessment, policy development, and assurance that action is taken. Developing countries have a greater focus on prevention of infectious diseases and on efforts to reduce poverty, but their priorities are shifting along with economic transitions. Prevention of global environmental impacts is of increasing priority. Several international policy goals have been adopted in principle, including sustainable development, the precautionary principle, and the concept of ‘polluter pays’. Policy approaches include: Use of best available technology to control pollution, requirements for environmental impact reviews, consideration of economic impacts and equity (environmental justice), and ability to address issues across entire ecosystems. Assuring that policies are carried out largely depends on the strength of the rule of law in a country. Approaches include command and control, pollution prevention, and environmental monitoring. More recently, countries have increased the use of ‘right-to-know’ approaches. Environmental education plays an important role in strengthening the awareness and role of individuals. Increasingly, international agreements are being used to curb harmful environmental practices, for example, the Montreal Protocol to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals. Such global capacity building is occurring on a number of fronts, for example, control of greenhouse gases and management of chemical in commerce. The rapid pace of global change, including, population growth, economic globalization, natural resource depletion, and climate change, is creating challenges for environmental health practice, even as economic transitions are creating new opportunities in developing countries.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.968
Threshold uncertainty score0.743

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.319
Teacher spread0.301 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it