Environmental Health

Environmental Health: Foundations for Public Health is a foundational textbook that brings together diverse voices and perspectives to examine our most pressing public health issues today. The textbook introduces readers to a wide range of the knowledge, skills, data, and resources needed to ensure environmental health at local and global levels. Whether students are heading into careers in governmental public health, research, advocacy, or other sectors, this textbook covers topics that relate to us all- climate change, energy, air, water, food, waste, and much more.

Designed for graduates and advanced undergraduates, this textbook presents the field's basic concepts, related policies, and scientific tools in an accessible way, including an introduction to risk assessment, epidemiology, and toxicology. Readers learn about regulatory science, how environmental health science is used to inform environmental protections, and where gaps remain, particularly in promoting environmental justice. Each chapter examines ways that structural racism and other types of discrimination have shaped environmental health inequities that persist today.

Readers can dig deeper to examine how environmental health and justice can be achieved in our communities, workplaces, households, learning environments, and other built and social environments, as well as how we can better integrate environmental health into our healthcare systems. Drawing on countless historic and contemporary case studies, Environmental Health: Foundations for Public Health facilitates a learning experience that inspires students to reimagine the foundations of environmental health for all.

Key Features:

• Provides a variety of learning tools including discussion questions and learning activities related to engagement, advocacy, and the exploration of environmental health in our daily lives
• "In Other Words" boxes reframe key or complex concepts to promote accessibility
• Focuses on environmental justice issues throughout the entire text and humanizes the realities of pressing environmental health concerns
• Breaks down key historic events that led to major environmental protections in the United States, such as the Clean Air Act, the Superfund program, and more
• Includes access to a 4-episode companion podcast series on the challenges and solutions of preventing and combating "PFAS forever chemicals"
• Qualified instructors have access to expanded Instructor Resources featuring chapter PowerPoints, test banks, and an Instructor Manual to supplement students' dynamic learning and interaction with the text