Enhance Your Understanding of Environmental Health

Environmental Health: From Global to Local is a comprehensive and authoritative textbook that offers a multifaceted view of environmental health, exploring its impact on different regions, populations, and professions. Edited by Howard Frumkin, former director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health and current dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Washington, this book provides a broad and in-depth introduction to the subject.

A Contemporary and Integrative Approach

The third edition of Environmental Health: From Global to Local maintains its strong grounding in evidence and has been revised for greater readability. It covers a wide range of traditional environmental health topics, including air, water, chemical toxins, radiation, and pest control, as well as cross-cutting issues such as:

• Building design and urban planning
• Energy and transportation
• Disaster preparedness and response
• Climate change and environmental psychology

This book also explores the critical importance of ecology, sustainability, and vulnerable populations, with integrated coverage of policy issues and a more global focus.

Understanding the Global and Local Ramifications of Environmental Health

Environmental health is a critically important topic that reaches into diverse fields such as communications, technology, regulatory policy, medicine, and law. This book serves as a well-rounded guide that addresses the field’s most pressing concerns, with a practical bent that takes the material beyond theory.

By reading Environmental Health: From Global to Local, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the cross-discipline manifestations of environmental health, the global ramifications of population and climate change, and how environmental issues affect health and well-being on a local scale.

As the first law of ecology reminds us, “everything is connected to everything else.” This book lays out the facts, makes the connections, and demonstrates the importance of these crucial issues to human health and well-being, both on a global scale and in our homes, workplaces, and neighborhoods.

Environmental Health: From Global to Local is an essential resource for students and professionals in public health, environmental health, preventive medicine, community health, and environmental studies. It offers a unique blend of theory, practical knowledge, and real-world applications, making it an invaluable guide for anyone seeking to understand the complex and interconnected nature of environmental health.