A community-engaged approach to environmental health research incorporates input and knowledge from members of a community and other stakeholders who are affected by an environmental health issue. Bringing the community voice to public health research and practice can increase the potential for translating research findings into sustainable changes and policies that can reduce exposure to envir...

This paper reviews some methodological aspects of ecologic studies of human health, with emphasis on investigations of environmental quality. A recent census of Canadian and U.S. data sets potentially suitable for this type of study is summarized. It is concluded that despite the considerable utility of the ecologic design for this purpose, substantial practical difficulties are common in their...

The purpose of this study is to introduce the establishment process, policy target, and projects for "Chungnam's master plan on environmental health policy (2017-2020)" as the local government's role in addressing local environmental health challenges. We first analyzed existing studies and social issues on the media related to "Chungnam's master plan" to understand Chungnam's environmental hea...

BACKGROUND Although injuries at school are an important issue in public health, environmental factors in schools and school yards have seldom been the focus of school injury research. The goal of our investigation was to examine the effect of environmental factors on school injuries. METHODS Nine comprehensive Finnish schools registered school injuries over a period of two school years. Injur...

The authors find overwhelming evidence among environmental health practitioners that One Health disease reporting concepts are essential to the early detection of, and expedient recovery from, pandemic disease events. The authors also find, however, extraordinary evidence that local public health is not prepared, and potentially unaware of their responsibility, to be the initiator of the zoonot...

This paper examines perceptions of various sources of environmental health risk in one Aboriginal community in Northern Canada to better understand how community members view those risks. The central question addressed is whether there is a pattern of perception, or form of cultural rationality, that informs risk perception generally, or are health risk perceptions created in an ad hoc manner, ...

Although it is often acknowledged that social and environmental factors interact to produce racial and ethnic environmental health disparities, it is still unclear how this occurs. Despite continued controversy, the environmental justice movement has provided some insight by suggesting that disadvantaged communities face greater likelihood of exposure to ambient hazards. The exposure-disease pa...

I n today’s fast-paced, budget-driven world, environmental health practitioners need all the help they can get keeping up-to­ date with the latest research and best prac­ tices for their diverse field. The envir onmental health workforce needs to be strong, sustained, and prepared to meet today’s challenges and improve the health and safety of all. To help the environmental health work­ force m...