Health Sciences 3290A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cockroach, Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion, Lead Poisoning
11 Dec 2015
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Special topics in health promotion: week 3 readings: environmental health promotion: bridging traditional environmental health and health. Industrial processes, agriculture, mining, and improper waste disposal have contaminated oceans and freshwater streams and rivers and the marine life, plants, and other biota associated with them. The second national report on human exposure to environmental chemicals show the presence of a variety of chemicals or their metabolites in human blood or urine. Children, women, the elders, ethnic minority populations, indigenous peoples, and the poor are particularly vulnerable to the development of environmentally linked disease, disability, or diminished quality of life. The need for health promotion involvement in environmental health at every level. Research in environmental health by the national institute of environmental health. Sciences (niehs) and the u. s. environmental protection agency, through their jointly sponsored centers for children"s environmental health and disease. Prevention and the niehs-sponsored community-based participatory research grants program.
