Prevention and health standards: American, Soviet, and European models.
This paper explores some significant sources of variation in the way health standards are derived and used in various countries: differences in biological and regulatory philosophies, in enforcement strategies, and in institutional arrangements. Such cross-national variations raise a number of questions about the process of standard-setting. Among the issues discussed here are the nature of the trade-off between long-run goals and feasibility criteria that merely codify current technical and economic practice, and the possibility of replacing statutory regulation by self-regulation and non-statutory codes and standards.
D004782:Environmental Health / Q000592:standards*; D005060:Europe; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D009786:Occupational Health Services; D011634:Public Health / Q000592:standards*; D014586:USSR; D014481:United States