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"Environmental Health: From Global to Local, Third Edition by Howard Frumkin is a comprehensive and contemporary introductory core text for students in public health, preventive medicine, community health, other health sciences, and environmental health. Expert contributors discuss the major issues in environmental health: air, water, food safety, occupational health, radiation, chemical and physical hazards, environmental disasters, vector control, and environmental justice. Major changes to the third edition: - More global focus - New chapter on vulnerable populations, covering children, poor/minority communities, elderly, others - New chapter on sustainability - Shorten most chapters and eliminate redundancies throughout the book - Much more creative, engaging discussion questions "--Provided by publisher

We live in unprecedented times - the Anthropocene - defined by far-reaching human impacts on the natural systems that underpin civilisation. Planetary Health explores the many environmental changes that threaten to undermine progress in human health, and explains how these changes affect health outcomes, from pandemics to infectious diseases to mental health, from chronic diseases to injuries. It shows how people can adapt to those changes that are now unavoidable, through actions that both improve health and safeguard the environment. But humanity must do more than just adapt: we need transformative changes across many sectors - energy, housing, transport, food, and health care. The book discusses specific policies, technologies, and interventions to achieve the change required, and explains how these can be implemented. It presents the evidence, builds hope in our common future, and aims to motivate action by everyone, from the general public to policymakers to health practitioners.

Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Preface: A Note on Covid-19 -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Foundations -- 1. An Introduction to Planetary Health -- 2. Assembling Planetary Health: Histories of the Future -- 3. Population, Consumption, Equity, and Rights -- 4. A Changing Planet -- Part 2: The Health of Populations -- 5. Food and Nutrition on a Rapidly Changing Planet -- 6. Planetary Health and Infectious Disease -- 7. Global Environmental Change and Noncommunicable Disease Risks -- 8. Environmental Change, Migration, Conflict, and Health -- 9. Mental Health on a Changing Planet -- 10. Climate Change and Human Health -- 11. Happiness on a Healthier Planet -- Part 3: Pivoting from Threat to Opportunity -- 12. Energy and Planetary Health -- 13. Urban Places and Planetary Health -- 14. Controlling Toxic Exposures -- 15. A New Economics for Planetary Health -- 16. The Business of Planetary Health: From Economic Theory to Policy and Practice -- Part 4: Saving Ourselves, Saving Our Planet -- 17. Planetary Health Ethics -- 18. A Bright Future for Planetary Health -- Afterword: Coronavirus and Planetary Health -- Index -- About the Editors -- Island Press ǀ Board of Directors.

Climate change has triggered a global public health emergency that, unless adequately addressed, is likely to become a multigenerational public health catastrophe. The policy actions needed to limit global warming deliver a wide range of public health benefits above and beyond those that will result from limiting climate change. Moreover, these health benefits are immediate and local, addressing one of the most vexing challenges of climate solutions: that the benefits of greenhouse gas reduction are seen as long‐term and global, which are remote from the concerns of many jurisdictions. In this commentary, we identify roles that health professionals and health organizations can play, individually and collectively, to advance equitable climate and health policies in their communities, health systems, states, and nations. Ultimately, health voices can work across national boundaries to influence the world's commitments to the Paris Agreement, arguably the world's most important public health goal.

The 'Oxford Textbook of Nature and Public Health' focuses on the role of nature for our health and wellbeing by demonstrating the multiple health benefits that can be gained from nature. Highlighting the need for healthy nature management, and to make public health issues part of all society development policies

"The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments. This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book sparked a range of inquiries into the connections between constructed environments, particularly cities and suburbs, and the health of residents, especially humans. Since then, numerous studies have extended and refined the book's research and reporting. Making Healthy Places offers a fresh and comprehensive look at this vital subject today. There is no other book with the depth, breadth, vision, and accessibility that this book offers. In addition to being of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students in public health and urban planning, it will be essential reading for public health officials, planners, architects, landscape architects, environmentalists, and all those who care about the design of their communities. Like a well-trained doctor, Making Healthy Places presents a diagnosis of-and offers treatment for-problems related to the built environment. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, with contributions from experts in a range of fields, it imparts a wealth of practical information, with an emphasis on demonstrated and promising solutions to commonly occurring problems."--Provided by publisher

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Ch. 1: What is Sprawl? What Does It Have to Do with Health? -- Defining and Measuring Sprawl -- Core Concepts: Land Use and Transportation -- Varieties of Sprawl -- The Subjective Experience of Sprawl -- Overview of This Book -- Ch. 2: The Origins of Sprawl -- Transportation -- The Pull of the Suburbs -- Expanding Cities: From Growth to No Growth -- The Automobile Age -- Zoning -- Federal Housing Policy and Suburban Growth -- Urban Sprawl in the Postwar Years -- Conclusion -- Ch. 3: The Evolution of Urban Health -- Urban Pestilence and Filth -- Industrial Pollution in Cities -- The Social Pathology of City Life -- The Future of Urban Health -- Ch. 4: Air Quality -- Land Use, Transportation, Air Quality, and Health: A Model -- Travel Behavior, Emissions, and Air Quality -- Air Quality and Public Health -- Conclusion -- Ch. 5: Physical Activity, Sprawl, and Health -- The Varieties of Physical Activity -- The Health Benefits of Physical Activity -- Physical Activity and the Built Environment -- Limits to What We Know -- Conclusion -- Ch. 6: Injuries and Deaths from Traffic -- Motor Vehicle Crashes -- Pedestrian Injuries and Fatalities -- The Risk of Leaving Home -- Ch. 7: Water Quantity and Quality -- Water and Health: An Overview -- The Hydrology of Sprawl -- Sprawl and Water Quality -- Conclusion -- Ch. 8: Mental Health -- The Mental Health Benefits of Sprawl -- The Mental Health Costs of Sprawl -- Driving and Mental Health -- Sprawl and Mental Health: The Big Picture -- Ch. 9: Social Capital, Sprawl, and Health -- What is Social Capital? -- The Decline of Social Capital -- Does Social Capital Affect Health -- Does Sprawl Undermine Social Capital? -- The Role of Income Inequality -- Conclusion -- Ch. 10: Health Concerns of Special Populations -- Women.

Nature preschools, where children spend the entire school day outdoors, are increasingly popular, but their health consequences have not been well researched. This study tested the hypothesis that nature preschools and conventional preschools differ in their illness and injury incidence, by comparing observed illness and injury occurrence in the two types of schools. For 14 weeks, teachers at five nature preschools and four conventional preschools in Seattle, Washington logged absences due to illness. Two nature preschools and three conventional preschools also logged injuries that occurred during the school day. There was no difference in illness incidence by preschool type, and no serious injuries were reported in either setting. Overall, the study found that nature preschools are a healthy and safe child-care model.

There is scientific consensus that the global climate is changing, with rising surface temperatures, melting ice and snow, rising sea levels, and increasing climate variability. These changes are expected to have substantial impacts on human health. There are known, effective public health responses for many of these impacts, but the scope, timeline, and complexity of climate change are unprecedented. We propose a public health approach to climate change, based on the essential public health services, that extends to both clinical and population health services and emphasizes the coordination of government agencies (federal, state, and local), academia, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations.

International audience ; The outbreak of COVID-19 raised numerous questions on the interactions between the occurrence of new infections, the environment, climate and health. The European Union requested the H2020 HERA project which aims at setting priorities in research on environment, climate and health, to identify relevant research needs regarding Covid-19. The emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 appears to be related to urbanization, habitat destruction, live animal trade, intensive livestock farming and global travel. The contribution of climate and air pollution requires additional studies. Importantly, the severity of COVID-19 depends on the interactions between the viral infection, ageing and chronic diseases such as metabolic, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and obesity which are themselves influenced by environmental stressors. The mechanisms of these interactions deserve additional scrutiny. Both the pandemic and the social response to the disease have elicited an array of behavioural and societal changes that may remain long after the pandemic and that may have long term health effects including on mental health. Recovery plans are currently being discussed or implemented and the environmental and health impacts of those plans are not clearly foreseen. Clearly, COVID-19 will have a long-lasting impact on the environmental health field and will open new research perspectives and policy needs.

International audience ; The outbreak of COVID-19 raised numerous questions on the interactions between the occurrence of new infections, the environment, climate and health. The European Union requested the H2020 HERA project which aims at setting priorities in research on environment, climate and health, to identify relevant research needs regarding Covid-19. The emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 appears to be related to urbanization, habitat destruction, live animal trade, intensive livestock farming and global travel. The contribution of climate and air pollution requires additional studies. Importantly, the severity of COVID-19 depends on the interactions between the viral infection, ageing and chronic diseases such as metabolic, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and obesity which are themselves influenced by environmental stressors. The mechanisms of these interactions deserve additional scrutiny. Both the pandemic and the social response to the disease have elicited an array of behavioural and societal changes that may remain long after the pandemic and that may have long term health effects including on mental health. Recovery plans are currently being discussed or implemented and the environmental and health impacts of those plans are not clearly foreseen. Clearly, COVID-19 will have a long-lasting impact on the environmental health field and will open new research perspectives and policy needs.