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Navigating public health chemicals policy in Australia: a policy maker’s and practitioner’s guide Volume 23 Issue 11-12

Adam Capon, Wayne Smith, James A. Gillespie

NSW Public Health Bulletin 23(12) 217-227 https://dx.doi.org/10.1071/NB12110 Published: 15 March 2012

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About the author/s

Adam Capon | Menzies Centre for Health Policy, The University of Sydney, Environmental Health Branch, Health Protection NSW

Wayne Smith | Environmental Health Branch, Health Protection NSW

James A. Gillespie | Menzies Centre for Health Policy, The University of Sydney

Corresponding author

Adam Capon | [email protected]

Abstract

Chemicals are ubiquitous in everyday life. Environmental health practitioners rely on a complex web of regulators and policy bodies to ensure the protection of public health, yet few understand the full extent of this web. A lack of understanding can hamper public health response and impede policy development. In this paper we map the public health chemicals policy landscape in Australia and conclude that an understanding of this system is essential for effective environmental health responses and policy development.