Environmental Health (eBook)

Foundations for Public Health

Natalie Sampson, Lindsay Tallon, Natasha Dejarnett (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024 | 1., First Edition
530 Seiten
Springer Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-0-8261-8353-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Environmental Health: Foundations for Public Health brings together diverse voices and perspectives to examine our most pressing public health issues today. This foundational textbook introduces readers to a wide range of the knowledge, skills, data, and resources needed to ensure environmental health at local and global levels. Whether students are heading into careers in governmental public health, research, advocacy, or other sectors, this textbook covers topics that relate to us all: climate change, energy, air, water, food, waste, and much more.Designed for graduates and advanced undergraduates, this textbook presents the field's basic concepts, related policies, and scientific tools in an accessible way. Readers learn about regulatory science, how environmental health science informs environmental protections, and where gaps remain, particularly in promoting environmental justice. Each chapter examines ways that structural racism and discrimination have shaped environmental health inequities that persist today. Readers can dig deeper to examine how environmental health and justice can be achieved in our communities, workplaces, households, and other built and social environments, as well as our healthcare systems. Drawing on countless historic and contemporary case studies, Environmental Health: Foundations for Public Health facilitates a learning experience that inspires students to reimagine the foundations of environmental health for all.Key Features: Provides a variety of learning tools, including discussion questions and learning activities, related to engagement, advocacy, and the exploration of environmental health in our daily livesPresents "e;In Other Words"e; boxes to reframe key or complex concepts and promote accessibilityHumanizes the realities of pressing environmental health and justice concernsIncludes access to a five-episode companion podcast series The PFAS Chronicles on the challenges and solutions of preventing and combating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or "e;forever chemicals"e;Qualified instructors have access to expanded Instructor Resources featuring chapter PowerPoint slides, a Test Bank, a Sample Syllabus, and an Instructor Manual to supplement students' dynamic learning and interaction with the text

Inhalt

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Podcasts

Springer Publishing Resources

SECTION I. FOUNDATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Chapter 1. Fundamentals of Environmental Health and Justice

Chapter 2. Environmental Health in Practice

Chapter 3. Confronting the Realities of Climate Change

Chapter 4. Environmental Health Policies and Protections: Successes and Failures

SECTION II. THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCE TOOLKIT

Chapter 5. Environmental Health Science for the People

Chapter 6. Understanding (Unequal & Cumulative) Risks in our Daily Environment

Chapter 7. Understanding the Environment and How it Relates to Health Using Toxicology and Epidemiology Research Methods

Chapter 8. Mapping Environmental Health and Justice Issues

SECTION III. INTERCONNECTED: AIR, WATER, ENERGY, FOOD, AND WASTE

Chapter 9. Energy and Health

Chapter 10. The Air We Breathe

Chapter 11. Clean Water for All

Chapter 12. Food Safety, Security, and Sovereignty

Chapter 13. Waste and Sustainability

SECTION IV. REIMAGINING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH FOR ALL

Chapter 14. Healthy Communities for All

Chapter 15. Preparing for and Recovering from Emergencies in our Changing Climate

Chapter 16. Ensuring Occupational Health

Chapter 17. Ensuring Children's Environmental Health and Justice

Chapter 18. Integrating Environmental Health and Justice into Healthcare

Chapter 19. Organizing for Environmental Health and Justice: Lessons from #StopGeneralIron

Glossary

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Schlagworte: env health perspectives • Environmental Health • environmental health and public health • environmental health perspective • Environmental Public Health • essentials of environmental health • Public and environmental health • public health environmental health
• ISBN-10: 0-8261-8353-0 / 0826183530
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8261-8353-8 / 9780826183538