Environmental Health: Foundations for Public Health

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Environmental Health: Foundations for Public Health brings together diverse voices and perspectives to examine our most pressing public health issues today. This foundational textbook introduces readers to a wide range of the knowledge, skills, data, and resources needed to ensure environmental health at local and global levels. Whether students are heading into careers in governmental public health, research, advocacy, or other sectors, this textbook covers topics that relate to us all: climate change, energy, air, water, food, waste, and much more.

Designed for graduates and advanced undergraduates, this textbook presents the field's basic concepts, related policies, and scientific tools in an accessible way. Readers learn about regulatory science, how environmental health science informs environmental protections, and where gaps remain, particularly in promoting environmental justice. Each chapter examines ways that structural racism and discrimination have shaped environmental health inequities that persist today. Readers can dig deeper to examine how environmental health, and justice can be achieved in our communities, workplaces, households, and other built and social environments, as well as our healthcare systems. Drawing on countless historic and contemporary case studies, Environmental Health: Foundations for Public Health facilitates a learning experience that inspires students to reimagine the foundations of environmental health for all. Know, use, and test your understanding of course content with CourseConnect―an interactive learning platform included with your print purchase.  

Key Features:

• Provides a variety of learning tools, including discussion questions and learning activities, related to engagement, advocacy, and the exploration of environmental health in our daily lives.
• Presents "In Other Words" boxes to reframe key or complex concepts and promote accessibility.
• Humanizes the realities of pressing environmental health and justice concerns.
• Includes access to a five-episode companion podcast series―The PFAS Chronicles―on the challenges and solutions of preventing and combating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or "forever chemicals".
• Qualified instructors have access to expanded Instructor Resources featuring chapter PowerPoint slides, a Test Bank, a Sample Syllabus, and an Instructor Manual to supplement students' dynamic learning and interaction with the text.

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Natalie Sampson, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of Michigan-Dearborn serving in many local and national leadership roles in the field of environmental health.

Lindsay Tallon, PhD, MSPH, CPH, is an Associate Professor of Public Health and Assistant Director of the MPH program at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

Natasha DeJarnett, PhD, MPH, BCES, is an Assistant Professor in the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute at the University of Louisville Division of Environmental Medicine.