Environment
Welcome to the Environment Section
If these or similar issues are of interest to you, then you should consider joining the Environment Section today!
- Have you or has anyone you know ever suffered from an environmentally-related illness (lead poisoning, E-coli infection, asthma)?
- Are you concerned with clean drinking water, a safe food source, air quality, the built environment, climate change, or exposure to toxic substances?
- Are you interested in Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, climate change policy, environmental justice, or local zoning regulations to promote health?
What is environmental health?
Environmental health and protection refers to protection against environmental factors that may adversely impact human health or the ecological balances essential to long-term human health and environmental quality, whether in the natural or man-made environment. (Journal of Environmental Health, April, 1996)
Environmental health addresses all the physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person, and all the related factors impacting behaviors. It encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect health. It is targeted towards preventing disease and creating health-supportive environments... (World Health Organization: Environmental Health Webpage)
What do environmental health professionals do?
Environmental health professionals work to focus attention on how environmental factors impact human health and help to shape national environmental health and protection policies. Environmental health professionals work in areas including:
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Pollution Research and Remediation: air, water, noise and radiation
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Food and Water Safety
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Toxic Substance and Pesticide Control
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Environmental Threat Response: toxins, catastrophes, diseases and agricultural outbreaks
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Built Environment Planning
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