TY - CHAP
T1 - Environmental Health
AU - Butler, Colin D.
AU - McMichael, Anthony J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2007 by Oxford University Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2009/9/1
Y1 - 2009/9/1
N2 - This chapter describes social injustice in relation to environmental health. It covers the scale and distribution of environmental health hazards, the relationship between social injustice and environmental health, in terms of water contamination, air pollution, soil contamination, food contamination, and exposure to chemicals and global climate and ecosystem change. The chapter also describes the impact of globalization on environmental health. It describes what needs to be done, including achieving environmental justice, creating greater awareness of the cost of environmental hazards, harnessing sufficient political and economic will, reducing exposure to hazardous chemicals, performing epidemiologic research, and reforming organizations and institutions.
AB - This chapter describes social injustice in relation to environmental health. It covers the scale and distribution of environmental health hazards, the relationship between social injustice and environmental health, in terms of water contamination, air pollution, soil contamination, food contamination, and exposure to chemicals and global climate and ecosystem change. The chapter also describes the impact of globalization on environmental health. It describes what needs to be done, including achieving environmental justice, creating greater awareness of the cost of environmental hazards, harnessing sufficient political and economic will, reducing exposure to hazardous chemicals, performing epidemiologic research, and reforming organizations and institutions.
KW - Air pollution
KW - Climate change
KW - Environmental disasters
KW - Globalization
KW - Hazardous chemicals
KW - Persistent organic pollutants
KW - Water contamination
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84920200783&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195171853.003.0018
DO - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195171853.003.0018
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84920200783
SN - 9780195171853
BT - Social Injustice and Public Health
PB - Oxford University Press
ER -