Health and the Environment in the Southeastern United States Rebuilding Unity: Workshop Summary (2002) / Chapter Skim
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WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND WHERE DOES IT HAPPEN? A definition of environmental health begins with the definitions of "health" and "environment." The World Health Organization has defined health as more than the absence of disease or infirmity (World Health Organization, 1986~; health also comprises physical, mental, and social well-being.
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Environmental health can be appreciated at the national level. Reverend Lowery mentioned national laws mandating clean water, clean air, and waste disposal that were milestones for environmental health in our country.
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Although research is still needed in this area, we must move beyond environmental toxicology to broader issues of environmental health. We must study the environmental determinants of behaviors that affect health.
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For example, what determines whether drivers buy large sports utility vehicles or small, ecologically sound, hybrid cars? Probing behavioral issues such as these may yield much information that will potentially change behaviors and benefit environmental health.
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Environmental health advocates need to join with architects, planners, engineers, developers, health professionals, epidemiologists, industrialists, members of the clergy, scientists, government officials, activists, policy makers, and the general public. By doing so, we can forge better solutions to environmental health problems; we can also more readily achieve the political majority needed to affect change in environmental and health policies.
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Technological advances, coupled with cooperative action in the educational, medical, business, social, and political spheres, offer great hope for protection of environmental health in the Southeast, throughout the United States, and around the world.
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