Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment A New Vision of Environmental Health for the 21st Century (2001) / Chapter Skim
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Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates. A key to success in the fixture is to define broader environmental health goals that call for better linking of environmental and public health.
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First, the local infrastructure for delivering environmental health is not working. It is overtaxed; in so many communities, the demands on public health simply to deliver medical services to the poor have overshadowed almost all public health functions.
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In addition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Healthy People 2010 plan define objectives for environmental health protection using public health goals that can be tracked. However, these efforts do not go far enough.
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