Community Participation in Health Management

Over the years, man has been thoughtlessly and indiscriminately exploiting the gifts of nature without a thought for the future which has resulted in the form of natural without a thought for the future which as resulted in the form of natural disasters like famine, flood etc. and the industrialization has caused the pollution of air water and soil. In the context of increasing incidence of health hazards caused by ever increasing loads of chemical pollutants let off into the environment, the importance of control measures for environmental protection has rightly assumed great significance. This book explains the necessity to carefully consider the potential detrimental effects on health and the environment of hazardous chemicals. It calls people to take appropriate actions at the local, national or international level for their environmentally sound management. It is hoped that they will leave for their children a better environmental legacy than the one we left for them.