Environmental Health Assignment( country policy analysis of environmental health )
Environmental Health Assignment #2: Essay – country policy analysis of environmental health policy/practice Total essay should be 4-5 pages double-spaced. Identify an environmental health policy (e.g., fracking, oil drilling, air pollution limits, recycling, carbon emissions, etc.) in a specific country (e.g., Argentina, Belgium, Central African Republic, Denmark, Ecuador,Japan, etc. – but not the U.S.). Provide information on when the policy was initiated, any epidemiological or environmental data that might show the before/after effects. Identify the key industry and policy players who are for/against this policy and the response of civil society. What are the debates? What arguments hold sway? Reflect in a final paragraph or two what you learned about this policy/issue by studying it within the context of this particular country. What effective and ineffective lessons did you learn from this analysis that may be transferable to low- and middle-income countries or regions?
