Cikrt M, Bláha K, Fuchs A
National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic.
Cent Eur J Public Health. 1993 Jun;1(1):4-6.
For more than 40 years, former Czechoslovakia has made minimal efforts to protect the environment. As a result, newly formed republics suffer from some of the worst environmental pollution in Europe. In all stages of a complex process of improving chemical safety both countries are facing tremendous problems: lack of efficient and powerful legislative measures, inadequate and sometimes non-reliable data, shortage of sophisticated equipment, virtual absence of basic knowledge and, generally, persisting distrust between public and governmental institutions in health and environmental issues. These factors have made the beginning of new approaches extremely difficult. However, a great effort of many people in both republics together with a substantial assistance of both international organizations and national institutions from developed countries seem to be promising. It could help to move former position of largely ineffective measures and investments to one where limited funds are spent to achieve public benefits.
四十多年来，前捷克斯洛伐克在环境保护方面几乎没有付出努力。结果，新成立的共和国遭受着欧洲一些最严重的环境污染。在改善化学品安全这一复杂过程的各个阶段，两国都面临着巨大问题：缺乏有效且有力的立法措施、数据不足且有时不可靠、精密设备短缺、基本常识几乎空白，而且总体而言，在健康和环境问题上，公共机构和政府机构之间一直存在不信任。这些因素使得新方法的起步极为困难。然而，两国许多人的巨大努力，加上国际组织和发达国家国家机构的大力协助，似乎很有希望。这有助于将以前大量无效措施和投资的状况转变为一种用有限资金实现公共利益的状况。
