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Understanding Environmental Health: How We Live in the World | 
 enlarge | Author: Nancy Irwin Maxwell
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $69.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 557809
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7 x 1
ISBN: 0763733180
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.1
EAN: 9780763733186
ASIN: 0763733180
Publication Date: August 25, 2008
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Product Description
This text takes a unique approach to presenting environmental health to students. Rather than being organized around the traditional regulatory fields (air pollution, hazardous wastes, etc.), this book is structured around the things we do as individuals and societies that result in environmental health hazards. The author details the hazards of energy production, industry, food production, and the modern lifestyle, while exploring our place within the global community. The book is an excellent introduction to environmental health for students of public health and health science. Instructor's Resources: Test Bank (both a multiple-choice exam and short answer exam) - Now Available! Companion Website - coming soon!
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New, different, and valuable December 3, 2008
A fascinating book, crammed with information. The innovative and intuitive organization makes the text very accessible for Masters in Public Health students and nonspecialists alike. (A table in the back maps out the locations in the text where traditional public health topics are discussed, to aid student and teacher.) Clearly structured tables and diagrams, photos, instructive sidebars and footnotes, a thorough glossary, and well-defined learning objectives and study questions--coupled with the lucid and engaging writing--raise this text well above the norm. Detailed and often scary, this book should form part of every curriculum, from medical to political science, that's concerned with human health.
A Textbook and More November 19, 2008
The editorial review of "Understanding Environmental Health" regards the book as an important introduction for students to the field of environmental health. Beyond its breadth, this reader found the book so well written and organized that it did not read like the typical textbook.
Chapter 2 details the science and methods used for those studying and working in the public health field, which some - not in the intended demographic - may or may not find interesting. Following Chapter 2 the book will captivate the reader as each topic (e.g. Infectious Disease, Poisons in Nature, Producing Manufactured Goods and Food, to Living in the World We've made) develops from the historic to current environmental health problems. The chapter on environmental health and manufacturing of goods had my full attention. I read it straight through twice, in one sitting.
Share "Understanding Environmental Health" with a friend or colleague. (Give it as a gift.) Be certain to have your copy returned. This is a perfect book for a classroom, as well as, the home.
Five stars for a book that is important for those who are concerned about environmental health. It is an education for all of us.
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