Abstract
This article examines issues relating to the development of indicators for environmental public health in Canada. It recommends using a variation of the pressure-state-response model developed by the World Health Organization, and focuses on biophysical aspects of human interactions with the environment. It proposes four issues as the starting point for developing indicators: air, water, land and food, while recognizing that these are only a sub-set of the issues. The article suggests that the development and use of indicators in environmental public health is an important, although still very nascent, field.
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