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  • 标题:Role of local government in responding to environmental health challenges: a case study of Chungnam
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  • 作者:Hyung-Nam Myung ; Hoo-Young Lee
  • 期刊名称:Environmental Health and Toxicology
  • 电子版ISSN:2233-6567
  • 出版年度:2017
  • 卷号:32
  • 期号:4
  • DOI:10.5620/eht.e2017023
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Korean Society of Environmental Health and Toxicology
  • 摘要:The purpose of this study is to introduce the establishment process,policy target,and projects for “Chungnam’s master plan on environmental health policy (2017-2020)” as the local government’s role in addressing local environmental health challenges. We first analyzed existing studies and social issues on the media related to “Chungnam’s master plan” to understand Chungnam’s environmental health status and discussed domestic and international policy trends and related plans. An environmental health perception questionnaire survey and a Delphi expert questionnaire survey were conducted among provincial residents to collect various actors’ opinions on Chungnam’s environmental health issues and policy. An expert advisory panel was launched,and a residents’ voice workshop and cities-and-guns-policy-suggestion workshop were held. The vision of Chungnam’s environmental health policy is minimizing environmental hazards. We finally selected “Pleasant environment,healthy people,happy Chungnam” to represent the will to shape a pleasant environment and prevent and manage health damages for a happy Chungnam. We selected five strategies based on status analysis and a review of domestic and international policy trends and related plans and identified 2 targets (policy objectives) to accomplish the strategies. The strategies to achieve the first target,“Leader in environmental health policy: Chungnam,” include ‘Empowering active provincial capabilities,’ ‘Setting up province-specific systems for environmental health surveys and research,’ and ‘Preventing and managing newly emerging pollutants.’ The strategies for the second target,“Everyone is healthy: Chungnam,” include ‘Relieving health inequalities among vulnerable regions and residents’ and ‘Enlarging the resident-friendly environmental health policy.’ We developed 29 projects in total,according to these strategies. The establishment of “Chungnam’s master plan” is highly valuable;we developed it through discussion involving diverse actors to address environmental health challenges together. It is necessary to continue to strengthen participation,communication,and cooperation among actors to develop an environmental health policy model for the future.
  • 关键词:Environmental health;Local government;Policy;Chungnam;Korea
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