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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 topicsair, water, chemical toxins, radiation, pest controlit 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.
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- Höfundur: Howard Frumkin
- Útgáfa:3
- Útgáfudagur: 2016-02-09
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- Format:Page Fidelity
- ISBN 13: 9781118988077
- Print ISBN: 9781118984765
- ISBN 10: 1118988078
Efnisyfirlit
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tables, Figures, Text Boxes, and Tox Boxes
- The Editor
- The Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Potential Conflicts of Interest in Environmental Health: From Global to Local
- Part 1 Methods and Paradigms
- Chapter 1 Introduction to Environmental Health
- What Is Environmental Health?
- The Evolution of Environmental Health
- Spatial Scales, from Global to Local
- The Forces that Drive Environmental Health
- Key Terms
- Chapter 2 Ecology and Ecosystems as Foundational for Health
- Environment as Ecology: Ecology as the Study of Our Home
- Population Ecology
- Community Ecology
- Ecosystem Ecology
- Systems Thinking: From Ecology to Human Health
- Features of Our Home: Ecological Characteristics as Foundational for Health
- Toward Ecological Approaches to Health and Home
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 3 Sustainability and Health
- Historical Considerations of Sustainability
- Sustainable Human Well-Being and the Three-Legged Stool
- Drivers of Nonsustainability, Limits to Growth, and Collapse
- What Should Concern Us More: Population Growth Or Consumerism?
- Limits to Growth
- Human Societal Collapse? Prevention Through Systems Thinking and Early Action
- The Importance of Scale
- The Way Forward
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 4 Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- A Primer on Epidemiology
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Epidemiology and Risk Assessment
- Future Directions
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 5 Geospatial Data for Environmental Health
- Components of Georeferenced Data
- Basic GIS Operations
- Mapping and Spatial Analysis of Exposure
- Mapping and Spatial Analysis of Disease Risk
- What Makes Good Maps of Good Data?
- What Can We Do with GIS?
- Are There Any Limitations?
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 6 Toxicology
- Introduction to Toxicology
- Toxicology and Environmental Public Health
- Toxicant Classifications
- Testing Compounds for Toxicity
- From Regulatory Toxicology to Public Health Policy
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 7 Genes, Genomics, and Environmental Health
- Fundamental Concepts of Genetics and Genomics
- Approaches for Identifying Gene-Environment Interactions
- Examples of Gene-Environment Interactions in the Real World
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 8 Exposure Science, Industrial Hygiene, and Exposure Assessment
- Anticipation, Recognition, Evaluation, and Control
- Exposure Science
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 9 Environmental Psychology
- Environmental Psychology and Toxicology
- Environmental Psychology Processes
- So What? Interventions That Work
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 10 Environmental Health Ethics
- Defining Ethics and Morals
- The Modern Philosophical Background
- Professionalism
- Expanding Horizons and Challenges
- Implications for Professional Ethics
- Concluding Discussion
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 11 Environmental Justice and Vulnerable Populations
- The Roots of Environmental Justice
- Elements of Environmental Justice
- From Research to Action on Environmental Justice
- Social Inequality and Environmental Quality
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 1 Introduction to Environmental Health
- Chapter 12 Climate Change and Human Health
- Greenhouse Gases
- A Warming Earth: From Past to Future
- Earth System Changes
- Food and Malnutrition
- Weather Extremes and Disasters
- Air Pollution
- Infectious Diseases
- Mental Health Effects
- The Public Health Response to Climate Change
- Climate Change as a Public Issue
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 13 Air Pollution
- History of Air Pollution
- Types of Ambient Air Pollution
- Studies of Air Pollution and Health
- Sources and Effects of Outdoor Pollutants
- Air Pollution Prevention and Control
- Larger Effects of Regional Air Pollution
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 14 Energy and Human Health
- Household Energy
- Fossil Fuels
- Nuclear Energy
- Renewable Sources of Energy
- Energy Conservation and Efficiency
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 15 Healthy Communities
- The History of Cities
- Poverty and Industrialization in Cities
- The Modern Metropolis: Consumption and Urban Sprawl
- Community Design and Health
- Cities as Healthy Human Habitats
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 16 Water and Health
- The Role of Water in Life
- Regulatory Framework
- Risk Characterization for Water Contaminants
- Emerging Issues
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 17 Solid and Hazardous Waste
- Solid Waste
- Solid Waste Management Strategies
- Primary Prevention of Waste
- Waste Treatment and Disposal
- Health Concerns
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 18 Pest Control and Pesticides
- Insect Pests
- Vertebrate Pests
- Pesticides
- Integrated Pest Management
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 19 Food Systems, the Environment, and Public Health
- What Is the Food System?
- Food Production: Industrial Agriculture
- Industrial Food Animal Production
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Food Consumption and Food Environments
- Food Safety and Environmental Health: A Systems Perspective
- Making Change: Food System Policy
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 20 Buildings and Health
- The Range of Buildings
- Key Elements of a Healthy Building
- Toward Safe, Healthy Buildings
- Architecture, Environment, and Human Health
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 21 Work, Health, and Well-Being
- The Interaction of Work and Health
- Protecting Safety and Health on the Job
- Workers' Compensation
- Sustainability
- Globalization
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 22 Radiation
- Nonionizing Radiations
- Ionizing Radiation: The Basics
- Sources of Ionizing Radiation Exposure
- Cellular and Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation
- Human Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation
- Radiation Protection
- Assessing Radiation Risks
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 23 Injuries
- Injury Prevention and Control
- Policy for Injury Prevention and Control
- Injury Prevention in Practice
- Injury Control in Special Settings
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 24 Environmental Disasters
- Scope of the Problem
- The Public Health Consequences of Environmental Disasters
- Disaster Risk and Its Determinants
- Managing Disaster Risk
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 25 Nature Contact
- The Links Between Nature and Human Health
- Domains of Nature Contact
- The Greening of Environmental Health
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 26 Environmental Public Health: From Theory to Practice
- Concepts of Environmental Health Prevention
- Principles of Prevention in Environmental Public Health
- Core Functions of Environmental Public Health
- Environmental Public Health Systems
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 27 Risk Assessment in Environmental Health
- History
- Risk Assessment
- Risk Management and Communication
- Summary
- Key Terms
- Chapter 28 Communicating Environmental Health
- Communication, Social Marketing, and Environmental Health
- Environmental Risk Communication
- Summary
- Key Terms
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