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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This is necessarily oversimplified since there are obvious interactions among these categories, but it gives some idea of the magnitude of the effects. The analysis did not include socioeconomic factors as direct contributions to death, but SES underlies risk in most of these areas: SES influences health care, environmental exposures, and health behaviors.
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Research on British civil servants has shown that a sense of control over work varies directly with occupational grade and accounts for much of the effects of occupational level on mortality. Community-based research has shown that in urban environments, neighborhoods that demonstrate a sense of"collective efficacy" and social cohesion have lower rates of violence as well as lower mortality from other causes of death; these associations hold even when controlling for traditional socioeconomic level.
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Further, individuals with higher incomes do not live near toxic waste sites or waste dumps. This results in an uneven distribution of exposure to potentially harmful environments and a need to relocate the entire community.
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Areas in our communities in which the greatest opportunities for redevelopment and revitalization exist, are also the sites where the most improvements to public health are needed. As part of any revitalization and redefinition efforts, we have to include a public health approach.
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Therefore, many people subscribe to the "dollar bills on the floor" Theory, which holds that if such opportunities really existed, they would have already been seized. This project, the Michigan Source Reduction Initiative (MSRI)
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To the contrary, the MSRI experience shows that companies can benefit substantially from interaction with informed critics drawn from the community and from regional and national environmental organizations. REDEFINING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT Howard Frumkin This talk will focus not so much on redefining the definition of environmental health but more on suggesting a broader approach and research that is a result of that approach.
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In one report, for example, a group of emotionally disturbed boys attending an outdoor day camp was compared to a group of similar boys who did not attend camp. The campers' self-ratings of their emotional adjustment, and their teachers' ratings, were significantly better than those of the controls, although neither parents' ratings nor scores on formal psychological testing showed an improvement.
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As a backdrop to Dr. Wallace's work, it is important to point out that major social, physical, and economic processes, including the massive building of highways to new suburbs; urban renewal, which decimated older neighborhoods in city centers; and the economic shifts that undermined manufacturing in urban areas of the North and East, led to major population loss in U.S.
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The Department of the Interior has been working to set aside green space in communities to help people, the environment, and other species. This also has a positive effect on the natural water flow, resulting in better dunking water for current and fixture residents.
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It is called "natural capitalism" a way of doing business as if nature and people were properly valued. Operationally, it wrings enormously more benefit Tom resources; it redesigns production along biological lines with closed loops, no waste, and no toxicity; it rewards both of these efforts through a "solutions economy" business model in which both customers and providers profit from doing more and better with less for longer; and it reinvests some of the resulting profits in natural capital.
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? In modern times, can a designer participate willingly in building a system that treats nature as its enem~a system that measures prosperity by how much natural capital we can dig up, bury, burn, or otherwise destroy?
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For example, in 1998, coral bleaching occurred due to the increased ocean temperatures. In Palau and other great reef sites around the world, bleaching resulted in massive coral death.
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ENSURING THE FOOD SOURCE Richard Rominger There is a disconnect between the American public and a true understanding of today's agriculture and how it impacts human health. Agriculture affects human health in two major ways: through environmental and ecosystem changes of farm production and through an available supply of food.
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