Ensuring Environmental Health in Postindustrial Cities Workshop Summary (2003) / Chapter Skim
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For example, they regularly convene workshops to help facilitate discussion on a specific topic, and one such occasion is the subject of this report, which summarizes the "Ensuring Environmental Health in Post-Industrial Cities," workshop that took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on March 19, 2003 (see Box 1.1~. A few years back, when the Roundtable began, it hosted a workshop called "Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: A New Vision of Environmental Health for the 21st Century." Ever since then, the Roundtable has been promoting a broader definition a "new vision" of environmental public health.
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Though we hear quite a bit today about the environmental problems associated with brownfields legacies of the steel mills, among other industrial sources environmental impacts are also associated with institutions such as universities. Academia has come a long way in the past 10 years toward recognizing its role not just in studying the environment but in taking responsibility for its own environmental impacts, though much remains to be done.
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OVERVIEW OF THE WORKSHOP The protection of the environment is protection of health, according to Lynn Goldman, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Environment and health are so inextricably intertwined, so strongly linked, that we should not even talk about the environment without also talking about health.
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Lynn Goldman WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH? Kenneth Olden The responsibility of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
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Still, in that regard we have started to come of age; the lay public, and certainly the press, are finally realizing their critical role. Therefore, the tasks that face us in environmental health are too important to be left to scientists or to federal employees like me.
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That's what environmental health is all about.
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