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Environmental Health Promotion: Bridging Traditional Environmental Health and Health Promotion

Health Education & Behavior, 2004
This article highlights the juncture between environmental health and health promotion and underscores the need for health promotion involvement in environmental health practice. It begins with a synopsis of current issues in environmental public health and deficiencies in environmental public health practice that could be partly ameliorated by an ...
Grant T. Baldwin, Elizabeth H Howze, Michelle C. Kegler   +2 more
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Pediatric environmental health

Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, 2003
P ediatric environmental health is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness caused by preconception, prenatal, perinatal, and pediatric exposures to environmental hazards; and the creation of healthy environments for children. Exposure to pollutants in air, food, and water as well as chemicals in the environment can be potentially helpful or
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Environmental Health

2005
AbstractThis chapter describes social injustice in relation to environmental health. It covers the scale and distribution of environmental health hazards, the relationship between social injustice and environmental health, in terms of water contamination, air pollution, soil contamination, food contamination, and exposure to chemicals and global ...
Colin D. Butler, Anthony J. McMichael
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Environmental health of children

Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 2003
Pediatric primary health care providers are responsible for providing comprehensive care to children. This includes assessing for and identifying the effect of environmental hazards on children's health and managing conditions that may result from exposure to environmental toxins. This article begins by reviewing the unique developmental, biologic, and
Barbara Sattler, Cathie Burns, Ardys McNaughton Dunn   +2 more
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Environmental health in the journals

Environmental Research, 1992
The environmental health aspects of general medical practice have attracted the attention of many professional organizations in the past few years, including the American College of Physicians, the Institute of Medicine, and the American College of Occupational Medicine.
Robert J. McCunney, Joseph Harzbecker, Reid T. Boswell   +2 more
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Environmental hazards and health

British Medical Bulletin, 1993
Significant health hazards to the traveller arise from altitude, heat, cold and water. Altitude-induced illness encompasses the benign but common syndrome of acute mountain sickness and also life-threatening pulmonary and cerebral oedema; inadequate acclimatization and rapid ascent are important precipitating factors in each case. Prophylaxis and up to
E H N Oakley, J M Beeley, D J Smith
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Environmental and Public Health

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1980
Startling advances in public health contrasted with some less favorable developments during the 1970s, but the general trend was one of progress, including progress with some problems of major public health significance. Immunization Prevention of infectious diseases through immunization has always been a primary aim in public health.
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Occupational and Environmental Health

Journal of Public Health Policy, 1991
principles for a national health system. Indeed, the Executive Committee of the Gray Panthers has decided that, in addition to its ongoing support of the Dellums bill, the NAPHP proposal "should also be approved in principle and supported by Gray Panthers." Our proposal is now under discussion by a number of organizations.
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