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

• Autore: Jones Lovell A
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (85 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.109764
• Soggetto topico: Environmental health - Texas - Houston Metropolitan Area; Public health - Texas - Houston Metropolitan Area
• Altri autori: PorrettoJohn CoussensChristine
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rebuilding the unity of health and the environment
• ISBN: 9786610173754; 9780309165280; 0309165288; 9781280173752; 1280173750; 9780309546461; 030954646X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910970404503321
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