Eyles John, Furgal Chris
McMaster Institute of Environment and Health, School of Geography and Geology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON.
Can J Public Health. 2002 Sep-Oct;93 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S62-7. doi: 10.1007/BF03405121.
In association with the proposed goals of the conference, this paper is presented to support the conference discussions on environmental health indicators by providing background on indicators for environmental health and their identification, selection, organization and use. This paper discusses the purpose of indicator use, frameworks used to organize indicators and the common types of indicators in use in monitoring programs today. It proposes a process for the identification and selection of indicators within the different environments, stressing the importance of clear goal definition and scientific and use-based criteria selection to support decisions. Finally, the paper suggests methods by which to organize and limit the number of indicators retained within a program, and the development of a potential "core" of indicators common to many environments and geographical scales.
结合会议的既定目标，本文旨在通过提供环境卫生指标的背景信息及其识别、选择、组织和使用方法，来支持会议关于环境卫生指标的讨论。本文讨论了指标使用的目的、用于组织指标的框架以及当今监测项目中常用的指标类型。它提出了在不同环境中识别和选择指标的过程，强调明确目标定义以及基于科学和实用性选择标准以支持决策的重要性。最后，本文提出了组织和限制项目中保留的指标数量的方法，以及开发许多环境和地理尺度通用的潜在“核心”指标的方法。
