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Environmental Health - From Global to Local 3e (Paperback, 3rd Edition)
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Environmental Health - From Global to Local 3e (Paperback, 3rd Edition)
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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.
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