Environment, Health and Sustainable Development (Understanding Public Health) - Softcover

Landon, Megan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335218415 ISBN 13: 9780335218417

Verlag: Open University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Longstanding evidence of the links between the environment and health have led to a recognition of the need for sustainable development. This is equally true in low, middle and high income countries. One of the great challenges for public health practitioners is to understand and try to modify the relationship between the environment and health in the face of development.

This book examines the underlying concepts, the history of environmental health, and the key factors that affect public health including:

• Air pollution
• Water contamination
• Industrial hazards
• Agricultural hazards

The increasing impact of global environmental issues is explored as they affect countries throughout the world.

Series Editors: Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.

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Megan Landon is Research Fellow in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She wrote and now tutors the Distance Learning course in Environmental Health at LSHTM.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Open University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0335218415
• ISBN 13: 9780335218417
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar