Public Health and the Environment: Uncovering Key Social, Ecological, and Economic Connections

 

The global challenges and trends of our time are embedded and intertwined with the social, ecological, and economic determinants of health.

Public Health and the Environment is timely as it focusses on the necessity to learn about existing environmental challenges and how they affect individuals as well as collective actions. Dr. Negrón’s book guides the reader through an in-depth analysis that denotes the relationship between significant social, ecological, and economic interactions and human health. Most of the time, those interactions might influence people’s health and well-being.

The author makes a case, bringing facts, to move forward the economic sustainability jointly with the sustainable management of the environment in connection to population health.

The book consists of seven chapters that offer the reader a variety of novel findings from case studies, internationally reports results and applied tools, and furthering recommendations from primary and secondary research data. The book also gives a complete list of cited references per chapter.

 

“This book is highly recommended to a diverse community of professionals, scientists, students, among others who have an interest in the environmental interactions that affect the quality of life, years of healthy life lived, and health disparities, as stated in the Healthy People 2020 Environmental Health objectives.”

Emma Fernández-Repollet, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for Collaborative Research in Health Disparities, University of Puerto Rico

 

“The book sustainable-pathway account is a breakthrough and a contribution to economic analyses beyond macroeconomic indicators to include important factors that influence the health of humans and ecosystems.”

Heidie Calero, Esq., President of H. Calero Consulting Group, Inc.