Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment

The Greater Houston Metropolitan Area: Workshop Summary

Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Research Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences and Medicine (Autoren)

Christine M. Coussens, John Porretto (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

86 Seiten

2005
National Academies Press (Verlag)
978-0-309-09442-9 (ISBN)

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Houston is struggling with many of the environmental problems that most of the nation's major metropolitan areas are struggling with - transportation, water and air pollution, flooding, and major demographic changes. Therefore, Houston provided an excellent site for a regional meeting on the relationship between environment and health. The purpose of this workshop in Houston was to bring all the stakeholders together - the private and public sector, along with representatives of the diverse communities in Houston - to discuss the impact of the natural, built, and social environments on human health. Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment summarizes the presentations and discussions of this workshop. The lessons one may draw from this meeting's presentations and discussions apply to other regions that are undergoing similar changes and that must also contend, as does Houston, with the legacies of insufficient planning, environmentally deficient planning, or sometimes, no planning at all.

Table of Contents

Front Matter
Summary
1 Introduction
2 Environmental Health Overview
3 Natural Environment
4 Social Environment
5 Built Environment
References
Appendix A Workshop Agenda
Appendix B Speakers and Panelists
Appendix C Workshop Participants

Lovell Jones, John Porretto, and Christine M. Coussens, Editors, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine

1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 Environmental Health Overview; 5 3 Natural Environment; 6 4 Social Environment; 7 5 Built Environment; 8 References; 9 Appendix A Workshop Agenda; 10 Appendix B Speakers and Panelists; 11 Appendix C Workshop Participants

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.2.2005
Verlagsort	Washington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	0-309-09442-9 / 0309094429
ISBN-13	978-0-309-09442-9 / 9780309094429
Zustand	Neuware