Environmental News Speed | "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" Environmental Health Work Plan: Prevention to minimize environmental risk hazards to the minimum (CCTV "News Live Room")

The ecological environment is good or not, directly related to people's health. A few days ago, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued the "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" Environmental Health Work Plan. This is the third five -year plan for environmental health work since the "Twelfth Five -Year Plan". The "Planning" sets key tasks such as strengthening the monitoring and evaluation of environmental health risks and vigorously improving the environmental health literacy of residents. How will this plan guide future ecological environmental protection? What does it mean to protect the health of the public? "Planning" preparation experts interpreted this.

The "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" Environmental Health Work Plan covers the five major items of environmental health risk monitoring and evaluation, residents' environmental health literacy, environmental health management countermeasures, technical support capabilities, and professional talent teams. Compared with environmental quality monitoring, pollution control, and ecological restoration, environmental health work emphasizes prevention and based on the basic principles of risk management. The purpose is to minimize the environmental risks that endanger the health of the public with the minimum economic and social costs.

Xu Jian, deputy director of the Environmental Health Risk Evaluation and Research Center of the Institute of Environmental Sciences: We live in this environment and will contact many harmful substances in the air, water, soil, and even food. We have long been exposed to this environment for a long time to this environment It will cause harm to human health. We can maximize or reduce the health damage caused by environmental health, investigation, risk assessment, and risk prevention and control.

Wang Jiansheng, Chief Expert of Environmental and Economic Policy Research Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment: For example, a chemical factory may be monitored for some VOC (volatile organic). Lead, chromium, and arsenic monitoring, then these monitors are proposed by protecting public health, not to say that the traditional environmental quality monitoring.

According to the "Planning", during the "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" period, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will carry out environmental health risk identification and investigation across the country, grasp the distribution of environmental health risks, and adopt targeted prevention and control measures, formulate environmental health related standards and guidelines , Effectively reduce environmental health risks from the source and better protect public health. At the same time, it will also actively carry out the publicity of environmental health to improve the public's awareness and ability to prevent environmental health risks.

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