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Introduction
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... Through their discussions, the members of the Roundtable look beyond narrowly focused topics and consider the larger environmental factors that influence public health. At a workshop sponsored by the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine in June 2000, Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: A New Vision of Environmental Health for the 21st Century, many participants expressed the view that for a long time the world of environment, environmental regulation, environmental control, and engineering had moved in one direction while the world of health had moved in another.
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... , environmental health is defined as "those aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are determined by interactions with physical, chemical, biological and social factors in the environment" (WHO, 1986)
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... . The definition of environmental health Other factors in addition to devel- has evolved with research; therefore, opmental health could have contributed the goals of environmental health to the child obesity problem in the Unit- should be to establish and maintain a ed States.
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... This increase accounts for the rapidly expanding research and development efforts by the pharmaceutical industry into potential tools for the management of Type II diabetes. Although evidence clearly indicates that fat cells play a role in moderating the insulin response and insulin sensitivity, evidence also indicates that some of the factors that occur during the course of pregnancy play a role as well, noted Mattison.
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