Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health.
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10 Facts About Environmental health
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Environmental health focuses on the natural and built environments for the benefit of human health.
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The major sub-disciplines of environmental health are environmental science, toxicology, environmental epidemiology, and environmental and occupational medicine.
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Environmental health was defined in a 1989 document by the World Health Organization as:Those aspects of human health and disease that are determined by factors in the environment.
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Children's environmental health is the academic discipline that studies how environmental exposures in early life—chemical, nutritional, and social—influence health and development in childhood and across the entire human life span.
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Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program is a comprehensive toxicology and environmental health web site, that includes open access to resources produced by US government agencies and organizations, and is maintained under the umbrella of the Specialized Information Service at the United States National Library of Medicine.
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TEHIP is responsible for the Toxicology Data Network, an integrated system of toxicology and environmental health databases including the Hazardous Substances Data Bank, that are open access, i e available free of charge.
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TOXMAP's chemical and environmental health information is taken from the NLM's Toxicology Data Network and PubMed, and from other authoritative sources.
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In Canada, practitioners in environmental health are required to obtain an approved bachelor's degree in environmental health along with the national professional certificate, the Certificate in Public Health Inspection, CPHI.
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Environmental health profession had its modern-day roots in the sanitary and public health movement of the United Kingdom.
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