| Description |
xxxiv, 857 pages : illustrations, graphs, maps ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Part 1. Methods and paradigms. Introduction to Environmental Health / Howard Frumkin ; Ecology and Ecosystems as Foundational for Health / Margot W. Parkes and Pierre Horwitz ; Sustainability and Health / Cindy L. Parker, Jessica D. Rhodes, and Brian S. Schwartz ; Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology / Kyle Steenland and Christine L. Moe ; Geospatial Data for Environmental Health / Lance A. Waller ; Toxicology / Gary W. Miller ; Genes, Genomics, and Environmental Health / David L. Eaton and Christopher M. Schaupp ; Exposure Science, Industrial Hygiene, and Exposure Assessment / Michael G. Yost and P. Barry Ryan ; Environmental Psychology / Nancy M. Wells, Gary W. Evans, and Kristin Aldred Cheek ; Environmental Health Ethics / Andrew Jameton ; Environmental Justice and Vulnerable Populations / Rachel Morello-Frosch and Manuel Pastor -- Part 2. Environmental health on the global scale. Climate Change and Human Health / Jonathan A. Patz and Howard Frumkin -- Part 3. Environmental health on the regional scale. Air Pollution / Michelle L. Bell and Jonathan Samet ; Energy and Human Health / Howard Frumkin ; Healthy Communities / Andrew L. Dannenberg and Anthony G. Capon ; Water and Health / Timothy Ford -- Part 4. Environmental health on the local scale. Solid and Hazardous Waste / Sven E. Rodenbeck and Henry Falk ; Pest Control and Pesticides / Mark Gregory Robson, George C. Hamilton, Wattasit Siriwong, and Héctor Luis Maldonado Pérez ; Food Systems, the Environment, and Public Health / Pamela Rhubart Berg, Leo Horrigan, and Roni Neff ; Buildings and Health / Howard Frumkin ; Work, Health, andWell-Being / David Michaels and Gregory R. Wagner ; Radiation / Matthew P. Moeller ; Injuries / Jeremy J. Hess, Anna Q. Yaffee, Jason R. Holmes, and Junaid A. Razzak ; Environmental Disasters / Mark E. Keim ; Nature Contact / Howard Frumkin -- Part 5. The practice of environmental health. Environmental Public Health: From Theory to Practice / Lynn R. Goldman ; Risk Assessment in Environmental Health / Mary C. Sheehan, Juleen Lam, and Thomas A. Burke ; Communicating Environmental Health / Edward Maibach and Vincent T. Covello |
| Summary |
"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 topics--air, water, chemical toxins, radiation, pest control--it 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.' Each piece of the system affects the whole, and the whole must sustain us all for the long term. Environmental Health lays out the facts, makes the connections, and demonstrates the importance of these crucial issues to human health and well-being, both on a global scale, and in our homes, workplaces, and neighborhoods."--Publisher information |
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Environmental Health: From Global to Local, Third Edition by Howard Frumkin is a comprehensive and contemporary introductory core text for students in public health, preventive medicine, community health, other health sciences, and environmental health. Expert contributors discuss the major issues in environmental health: air, water, food safety, occupational health, radiation, chemical and physical hazards, environmental disasters, vector control, and environmental justice. Major changes to the third edition: More global focus, new chapter on vulnerable populations, covering children, poor/minority communities, elderly, others, new chapter on sustainability, shortens most chapters and eliminates redundancies throughout the book, much more creative, engaging, discussion questions.--Publisher information |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Environmental health
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Health risk assessment
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| Author |
Frumkin, Howard, editor, contributor
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2015036497 |
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9781118984765 (paperback) |
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