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Spheres of Influence
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Environmental and Public Health: Pulling the Pieces Together Harvey Black Abstract In years past, planners, architects, and landscapers, such as Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed New York City's Central Park in 1857, put into practice the notion that a clean, hospitable recreational area would enhance public health by offering people a place to walk and engage in other forms of physical activity. But over the years, as the fields of public health, environmental protection, city planning, and land development have become increasingly specialized, the connection between the environment and public health has become fractured. Today, environmental health is not always appropriately addressed in the broader public health enterprise. The concept of an expanded, enhanced, more integrative vision of environmental health was a major theme of a June 2000 workshop held by the Institute of Medicine. According to workshop participants, it is necessary to merge strategies to protect environment and health into strategies for continued economic development and growth of communities, and to integrate environmental health into economic and design strategies. The full version of this article is available for free in HTML or PDF formats. |
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