Open AccessEnvironmental Health Practice: Statistically Based Performance Measurement
Author(s) -
Richard T. Enander,
Ronald N. Gag,
R. Choudary Hanumara,
Eugene Park,
Thomas J. Armstrong,
David M. Gute
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2006.088021
Subject(s) - certification , environmental health , bonferroni correction , enforcement , hazardous waste , occupational safety and health , government (linguistics) , medicine , business , operations management , engineering , statistics , mathematics , waste management , political science , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , law
State environmental and health protection agencies have traditionally relied on a facility-by-facility inspection-enforcement paradigm to achieve compliance with government regulations. We evaluated the effectiveness of a new approach that uses a self-certification random sampling design.