If you were put in charge of the local government (NYC), what would you consider to be the first or most important environmental health issue that you can or could address?
Legislators and regulators must address competing priorities when considering how to ac environmental public health issues. These priorities include not just how important something might be but also the availability of methods and personnel to perform what they require, how effective those actions might be, how the actions would be paid for, and their cost-effectiveness. In a way, this is their version of a risk-balancing activity. If you were put in charge of the local government (NYC), what would you consider to be the first or most important environmental health issue that you can or could address? From the local government level, what would you do to address this issue? What if you were put in charge of the NY state government? What would you then consider to be the first or most important environmental health issue that you can or could address? From this state government level, what would you do to address the issue? What if you were put in charge of the federal government? What would you consider the first or most important environmental health issue you can or could address? From this federal government level, what would you do to address
