Environmental health

Not to be confused with Ecological health, Ecosystem health, or Environmental medicine.
For the academic journal, see Environmental Health (journal).
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Conceptual map illustrating the connections among nonhuman nature, ecosystem services, environmental ethics, environmental justice, and public health
Environmental health indicator (2016). It consists of three categories: health impacts, air quality, and water and sanitation. The health impacts category includes the environmental risk exposure indicator.

Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health. To effectively control factors that may affect health, the requirements that must be met to create a healthy environment must be determined.[1] The major sub-disciplines of environmental health are environmental science, toxicology, environmental epidemiology, and environmental and occupational medicine.[2]

  1. ^ Dovjak, Mateja; Kukec, Andreja (2019), "Health Outcomes Related to Built Environments", Creating Healthy and Sustainable Buildings, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 43–82, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19412-3_2, ISBN 978-3-030-19411-6, S2CID 190160283
  2. ^ Kelley, Timothy (2008-07-21). "The ecology of environmental health". Environmental Health Insights. 2: 25–26. Bibcode:2008EnvHI...200200K. doi:10.1177/117863020800200001. ISSN 1178-6302. PMC 3091335. PMID 21572828.