An essential textbook on how the environment influences our health and well-being.The Environment and Your Health Everything around us-air, water, food, buildings, neighborhoods-shapes our health in profound ways. Edited by Megan Weil Latshaw and Joseph P. Bressler, this essential textbook offers a comprehensive foundation in environmental health to help students understand how physical, chemical, biological, and social environments influence well-being. This textbook provides clear, accessible coverage of the key topics required by instructors, including legacy content from traditional environmental health syllabi and new competency-based standards. Students will explore environmental exposure assessment, toxicology, epidemiology, air and water pollution, food safety, occupational health, and risk assessment. They'll also examine broader systemic issues, such as climate change, food systems, environmental justice, and the intersection of human, animal, and ecosystem health. Emerging concerns like "forever chemicals," global waste, and the health impacts of the built environment are addressed alongside traditional core topics. Through a systems-thinking lens, the book encourages readers to analyze complex, real-world challenges and consider policy and intervention strategies that can improve health outcomes at individual, community, and global scales. Engaging case studies and clear learning objectives reinforce each chapter's key concepts. The Environment and Your Health equips students with the knowledge and perspective to understand how their environment shapes their health-and how they can help shape healthier environments.
Megan Weil Latshaw is an assistant teaching professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Joseph P. Bressler is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Sources, Fate and Transport of Contaminants in Water and Air 3. Environmental Exposure Assessment 4. Toxicokinetics 5. Toxicodynamics 6. Environmental Epidemiology 7. Policies and Laws that Govern Environmental Health in the U.S. 8. Human Health Risk Assessment 9. Occupational Health 10. The Practice of Environmental Health 11. Air Pollution 12. Water 13. Food Safety 14. Pesticides 15. Systems Thinking 16. Food Systems 17. Climate Change and Public Health 18. The Environmental Health Impacts of Disasters 19. Built Environment 20. Environmental Justice 21. Environmental Health Issues in Low- and Middle-Income Countries 22. One Health: The intersection of human health, animal health, and environmental health 23. Economics and Environmental Health 24. Careers in Environmental Health
An essential textbook on how the environment influences our health and well-being.The Environment and Your Health
