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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970404503321

Autore

Jones Lovell A

Titolo

Rebuilding the unity of health and the environment : the Greater Houston Metropolitan Area : a workshop summary / / Lovell Jones, John Porretto, and Christine M. Coussens, editors ; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine ; Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2005

ISBN

9786610173754

9780309165280

0309165288

9781280173752

1280173750

9780309546461

030954646X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (85 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PorrettoJohn

CoussensChristine

Disciplina

362.109764

Soggetti

Environmental health - Texas - Houston Metropolitan Area

Public health - Texas - Houston Metropolitan Area

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

FrontMatter -- Reviewers -- Preface -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Environmental Health Overview -- 3 Natural Environment -- 4 Social Environment -- 5 Built Environment -- References -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B Speakers and Panelists -- Appendix C Workshop Participants.

Sommario/riassunto

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.