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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on September 26, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2007 17(1):4-5; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl078
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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The UK experience with Health Impact Assessment of disasters

David Russell1 and Patrick Saunders2

1 Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division, The Centre for Chemicals, Radiation and Environmental Hazards, The Health Protection Agency Cardiff, Wales, UK
2 Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division, The Centre for Chemicals, Radiation and Environmental Hazards, The Health Protection Agency Chilton, Oxon, UK

Correspondence: David Russell, Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division, The Centre for Chemicals, Radiation and Environmental Hazards, The Health Protection Agency, Cardiff, Wales, UK, e-mail: DRussell@uwic.ac.uk

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Chemical accidents may occur at any time and place, involving all major environmental media and with significant concerns for community health.1 Such incidents may be the consequence of spillages, leaks, fires, and explosions or the consequence of transportation by road, rail, air, or sea. There have been several high profile incidents, including the Bhopal disaster (1984), the release of dioxins at Seveso (1993), aluminium contamination of water supplies . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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