Establishment of surveillance, investigation and health risk assessment system with Chinese characteristics in the field of environmental health / 中华疾病控制杂志

ABSTRACT

In the past decades, serious environmental pollution problems have been caused by the extensive economic growth in China, of which adverse health effects have emerged gradually and received considerable attention. Chinese government attached great importance to these issues, and then carried out plenty of surveillance, investigation and health risk assessment work, which provide important basic data and scientific evidences for decision-making in the health effects of environmental pollution researching, related diseases control and prevention. Development, progress and future prospects of surveillance, investigation and health risk assessment system in the field of environmental health were discussed in this paper.