title: Stabilization and prevention--a theoretical framework for environmental hygiene.
abstract: A theoretical framework for research about problems of environmental hygiene and the conception of strategies for their solution is described. In this context experiences with environmental impact assessments are analysed and proposals for improvements of such assessments are worked out. The strategies for protecting and shaping environments are categorised in 3 groups: defensive, constructive and evolutionary. Conceptual schemas for man-environment and socio-environment systems are presented. Evolutionary strategies for the development of these systems are formulated analogue to evolution strategies of ecosystem development. The effects of destabilization on health risks in man-environment systems are partially tested in a longitudinal study on effects of shiftwork. The possibilities of destabilization, restabilization and prevention of health risks in socio-environment systems are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Umwelthygiene, Universität Wien.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haider
mesh_terms: D004781:Environmental Exposure; D004782:Environmental Health; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans