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Chapter 4 of the book "Local Environmental Health Planning: Guidance for Local and National Authorities" is presented. It explores the development of the national environmental action programs (NEAPs) from the principles of environmental action program (EAP) for environmental protection. It also discusses the meaning of the NEAP process, and how it was carried out.

Chapter 1 of the book "Local Environmental Health Planning: Guidance for Local and National Authorities" is presented. It explores the importance of environmental health policy that was addressed during several conferences of the World Health Organization (WHO). It also identifies a series of driving forces that create the conditions in which threat to environmental health can develop or be averted.

The article lists the contributions of the European Union to environment and health policy. These include its chemicals and environment policies, focus of the Competitive and Sustainable Development Programme on clean production and the avoidance of health hazards that resulted from industrial processes, and participation in the implementation of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) protocol on persistent organic pollutants (POP).

The article presents an encyclopedia entry for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA is the government agency responsible for regulating and licensing commodity chemicals, herbicides, rodenticides, fungicides and insecticides. Immunotoxicology and plaque-forming cell assay are the related terms for cross reference to EPA.

The article presents the sample message from the Mayor of any town municipality in the support of the planning process of local environmental health action plan (NEHAP). It addresses the municipality's concerns for environmental health issues and the framework of environmental health policy. It also stresses the importance of cooperation between community and industry towards sustainable development.