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Rebuilding the unity of health and the environment : a new vision of environmental health for the 21st Century / Kathi Hanna and Christine Coussens.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Compass series (Washington, D.C.)Publication details: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, �2001.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 79 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0309564921
  • 9780309564922
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rebuilding the unity of health and the environment.DDC classification:
  • 363.7 22
LOC classification:
  • RA565 .H36 2001eb
NLM classification:
  • 2001 B-475
  • WA 30
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Keynote address: Environment and health: a connection to the current debate -- Human health and the natural environment : The importance of contact with nature ; Biodiversity and human health ; Ensuring the food source while addressing environmental health -- Human health and the "built" environment : Designing a better future ; Smart growth ; Coherence in the built environment ; Embracing natural capitalism -- Human health and the social environment : Sustainable development, environment, and health ; Health and the urban environment: the forgotten ecosystem ; Socioeconomic status and health ; Nutrition, physical activity, and health ; A more communal approach to health ; Changing the educational environment -- Toward an integrative approach to environmental health.
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"A workshop summary for the Roundtable on Environmental Health Services, Research and Medicine, Division of Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine."

Includes bibliographical reference (pages 43-44).

Introduction -- Keynote address: Environment and health: a connection to the current debate -- Human health and the natural environment : The importance of contact with nature ; Biodiversity and human health ; Ensuring the food source while addressing environmental health -- Human health and the "built" environment : Designing a better future ; Smart growth ; Coherence in the built environment ; Embracing natural capitalism -- Human health and the social environment : Sustainable development, environment, and health ; Health and the urban environment: the forgotten ecosystem ; Socioeconomic status and health ; Nutrition, physical activity, and health ; A more communal approach to health ; Changing the educational environment -- Toward an integrative approach to environmental health.

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