Environmental Health

Foundations for Public Health

Natalie Sampson, PhD, MPH, Lindsay Tallon, PhD, MSPH, CPH, Natasha DeJarnett, PhD, MPH, BCES

$163

Paperback

Forthcoming
Pre-Order now

QTY:

English

Springer Publishing Co Inc
28 September 2024

Environmental factors

"Environmental Health: Foundations for Public Health is a foundational textbook that brings together diverse voices and perspectives to examine our most pressing public health issues today. The textbook introduces readers to a wide range of the knowledge, skills, data, and resources needed to ensure environmental health at local and global levels. Whether students are heading into careers in governmental public health, research, advocacy, or other sectors, this textbook covers topics that relate to us all— climate change, energy, air, water, food, waste, and much more.

Designed for graduates and advanced undergraduates, this textbook presents the field's basic concepts, related policies, and scientific tools in an accessible way, including an introduction to risk assessment, epidemiology, and toxicology. Readers learn about regulatory science, how environmental health science is used to inform environmental protections, and where gaps remain, particularly in promoting environmental justice. Each chapter examines ways that structural racism and other types of discrimination have shaped environmental health inequities that persist today.

Readers can dig deeper to examine how environmental health and justice can be achieved in our communities, workplaces, households, learning environments, and other built and social environments, as well as how we can better integrate environmental health into our healthcare systems. Drawing on countless historic and contemporary case studies, Environmental Health: Foundations for Public Health facilitates a learning experience that inspires students to reimagine the foundations of environmental health for all. Purchase includes online access via most mobile devices or computers.

Key Features:

Provides a variety of learning tools including discussion questions and learning activities related to engagement, advocacy, and the exploration of environmental health in our daily lives

""In Other Words"" boxes reframe key or complex concepts to promote accessibility

Focuses on environmental justice issues throughout the entire text and humanizes the realities of pressing environmental health concerns

Breaks down key historic events that led to major environmental protections in the United States, such as the Clean Air Act, the Superfund program, and more

Includes access to a 4-episode companion podcast series on the challenges and solutions of preventing and combating ""PFAS forever chemicals""

Qualified instructors have access to expanded Instructor Resources featuring chapter PowerPoints, test banks, and an Instructor Manual to supplement students' dynamic learning and interaction with the text"

Edited by: Natalie Sampson PhD MPH, Lindsay Tallon, PhD, MSPH, CPH, Natasha DeJarnett, PhD, MPH, BCES
Imprint: Springer Publishing Co Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
ISBN: 9780826183521
ISBN 10: 0826183522
Pages: 506
Publication Date: 28 September 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Contributors Foreword Preface Acknowledgements List of Podcasts Springer Publishing Resources SECTION I. FOUNDATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Chapter 1. Fundamentals of Environmental Health and Justice Chapter 2. Environmental Health in Practice Chapter 3. Confronting the Realities of Climate Change Chapter 4. Environmental Health Policies and Protections: Successes and Failures SECTION II. THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCE TOOLKIT Chapter 5. Environmental Health Science for the People Chapter 6. Understanding (Unequal & Cumulative) Risks in our Daily Environment Chapter 7. Understanding the Environment and How it Relates to Health Using Toxicology and Epidemiology Research Methods Chapter 8. Mapping Environmental Health and Justice Issues SECTION III. INTERCONNECTED: AIR, WATER, ENERGY, FOOD, AND WASTE Chapter 9. Energy and Health Chapter 10. The Air We Breathe Chapter 11. Clean Water for All Chapter 12. Food Safety, Security, and Sovereignty Chapter 13. Waste and Sustainability SECTION IV. REIMAGINING ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH FOR ALL Chapter 14. Healthy Communities for All Chapter 15. Preparing for and Recovering from Emergencies in our Changing Climate Chapter 16. Ensuring Occupational Health Chapter 17. Ensuring Children's Environmental Health and Justice Chapter 18. Integrating Environmental Health and Justice into Healthcare Chapter 19. Organizing for Environmental Health and Justice: Lessons from #StopGeneralIron Glossary

Natalie Sampson, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of Michigan-Dearborn serving in many local and national leadership roles in the field of environmental health. Lindsay Tallon, PhD, MSPH, CPH, is an Associate Professor of Public Health and Assistant Director of the MPH program at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Natasha DeJarnett, PhD, MPH, BCES, is an Assistant Professor in the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute at the University of Louisville Division of Environmental Medicine.