The bestselling environmental health text, with all new coverage of
key topics
Environmental Health: From Global to Local is a comprehensive
introduction to the subject, and a contemporary, authoritative text for
students of public health, environmental health, preventive medicine,
community health, and environmental studies. Edited by the former
director of the CDC's National Center for Environmental Health and
current dean of the School of Public Health at the University of
Washington, this book provides a multi-faceted view of the topic, and
how it affects different regions, populations, and professions. In
addition to traditional environmental health topics--air, water,
chemical toxins, radiation, pest control--it offers remarkably broad,
cross-cutting coverage, including such topics as building design, urban
and regional planning, energy, transportation, disaster preparedness and
response, climate change, and environmental psychology. This new third
edition maintains its strong grounding in evidence, and has been revised
for greater readability, with new coverage of ecology, sustainability,
and vulnerable populations, with integrated coverage of policy issues,
and with a more global focus.
Environmental health is a critically important topic, and it reaches
into fields as diverse as communications, technology, regulatory policy,
medicine, and law. This book is a well-rounded guide that addresses the
field's most pressing concerns, with a practical bent that takes the
material beyond theory.
- Explore the cross-discipline manifestations of environmental health
- Understand the global ramifications of population and climate change
- Learn how environmental issues affect health and well-being closer to
home
- Discover how different fields incorporate environmental health
perspectives
The first law of ecology reminds is that 'everything is connected to
everything else.' Each piece of the system affects the whole, and the
whole must sustain us all for the long term. Environmental Health lays
out the facts, makes the connections, and demonstrates the importance of
these crucial issues to human health and well-being, both on a global
scale, and in our homes, workplaces, and neighborhoods.
