ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN HEALTH

  More on Environmental Health... Environmental health focuses on both preventing and responding to environmental hazards that can have an adverse effect on human health . This includes evaluating the potential risks from environmental exposures and developing strategies to reduce or eliminate those risks . It also includes assessing the potential health impacts of environmental changes and designing interventions to reduce or prevent those impacts . Environmental health also includes monitoring and surveillance to ensure that environmental hazards are identified and addressed in a timely manner . Environmental health is a growing field of study as the world becomes increasingly aware of the impacts of environmental changes on human health . In recent years , climate change has been identified as a major environmental health issue , and there is an increasing foc...