Public health approach

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-022713",
  "term": "Public health approach",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Public Health Approach",
  "definition": "Regulatory and voluntary focus on effective and feasible risk management actions at the national and community level to reduce human exposures and risks, with priority given to reducing exposures with the biggest impacts in terms of the number affected and severity of effect.",
  "subject": "Health and safety",
  "references": [
    "Terms of Environment; EPA 2005b"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/public-health-approach/"
}