Book contents
- Environmental Impacts on Reproductive Health and Fertility
- Environmental Impacts on Reproductive Health and Fertility
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Environmental contaminants and exposure
- 3. Development and maturation of the normal female reproductive system
- 4 Development and maturation of the normal male reproductive system
- 5 Modern genetics of reproductive biology
- 6. Mechanisms of endocrine disruption
- 7. Developmental exposures and implications for early and latent disease
- 8 Wildlife as sentinels of environmental impacts on reproductive health and fertility
- 9 Environmental contaminants and effects on timing and progression of human pubertal development
- 10 Environmental contaminants and impacts on healthy and successful pregnancies
- 11 Environmental contaminants and reproductive and fertility effects in the male
- 12. Environmental contaminants, female reproductive health and fertility
- 13 Environmental contaminants and related systems that have implications for reproduction
- 14 Environmental contaminants and cancers of the reproductive tract
- 15 Communicating with patients and the public about environmental exposures and reproductive risk
- 16 Interpreting science in the policy context
- 17 Conclusions – what does all this mean, and where are we going?
- Index
16 - Interpreting science in the policy context
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 February 2010
Book contents
- Environmental Impacts on Reproductive Health and Fertility
- Environmental Impacts on Reproductive Health and Fertility
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Environmental contaminants and exposure
- 3. Development and maturation of the normal female reproductive system
- 4 Development and maturation of the normal male reproductive system
- 5 Modern genetics of reproductive biology
- 6. Mechanisms of endocrine disruption
- 7. Developmental exposures and implications for early and latent disease
- 8 Wildlife as sentinels of environmental impacts on reproductive health and fertility
- 9 Environmental contaminants and effects on timing and progression of human pubertal development
- 10 Environmental contaminants and impacts on healthy and successful pregnancies
- 11 Environmental contaminants and reproductive and fertility effects in the male
- 12. Environmental contaminants, female reproductive health and fertility
- 13 Environmental contaminants and related systems that have implications for reproduction
- 14 Environmental contaminants and cancers of the reproductive tract
- 15 Communicating with patients and the public about environmental exposures and reproductive risk
- 16 Interpreting science in the policy context
- 17 Conclusions – what does all this mean, and where are we going?
- Index
Summary
This chapter explains how science is evaluated and used in decision-making for public policy measures and other actions that focus on reducing exposure to harmful environmental contaminants. It briefly reviews the current statutory approaches to regulations and policy decisions. The chapter explores what is lacking and needed for more effective and protective policy decisions. It presents some of the typical types of scientific information that are used to identify potential human health hazards from environmental chemicals. The chapter deals with some of the judgments/issues that arise when evaluating the information for use in the decision-making policy process. Most forms of public policies and decision-making require some toxicological knowledge for informing actions, though scientific information is only one part of the process, as decisions and policies are also influenced by politics, economics, and other external forces.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010