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Environmental Public Health Surveillance

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 1996
A holistic and collaborative approach needs to be taken in the development of environmental public health surveillance systems. Exposure and hazard surveillance integrated with outcome-based surveillance will blend fragmented strands of data into streams of information.
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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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Environmental Risks and Public Health

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2001
Abstract: There are currently a number of initiatives aimed at considering and redefining the role of environmental health. These include an effort under the auspices of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Environmental Health and another under the auspices of the American Schools of Public Health. Both will result in conferences to be held in the
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Protecting the public health — the role of environmental health

Public Health, 1996
This article seeks to review the key concepts and issues central to environmental health in relation to the protection of public health. It will focus on the holistic framework in which environmental health operates and the major threats faced. The key issue to be addressed is the need for collaboration at the professional and organisational level as a
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Nanotechnology and Environmental and Public Health Considerations

NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, 2004
Nanotechnology has arrived on the scene much as did predecessor technologies—hailed for its purpose and accepted with enthusiasm amid bursts of research, funding, and news of creative applications. But the early efforts to consider its environmental aspects have been small even though the implications for environmental and public health are broad.
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PUBLIC INTEREST IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

SWS International Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES - ISCSS, 2022
The granting of exemptions in 2022 in Romania for the use of three neonicotinoid pesticides, considered toxic pesticides, harmful to bees, is considered "the beginning of a systemic crisis for environmental health and food security in Europe and globally".
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Environmental health and public health: are they compatible?

Public Health, 1996
Since the beginnings of public health were rooted in environmental issues the question posed might seem absurd. However, there is a point because the approaches to the two are slightly different in most countries and increasingly different in the United Kingdom.
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Public and Environmental Health

2009
The principles of modern public health have been loftily defined as “the protection and promotion of the health and welfare of its citizens by the state.” Governments have taken on these responsibilities in different ways, reflecting different political cultures, disease environments, and pressures from civil society.
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