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Environmental HealthEnvironmental health refers to those factors in the environment that can affect human health and well-being, from air pollution to water contamination to the impacts of industrial waste. The environmental health movement began in the 1860s with the rise of industrialization. Along with the conservation movement, it is the most solid citizen-based sector of the modern environmental and sustainability movement. The environmental health movement extended self-protection of the body to concern for the environment that, many times, contributes or causes disease. The environmental health movement works on global issues such as health impacts of Chernobyl and international sales of harmful products, on networked issues like Minimata disease, and on local issues of toxic pollution. It is deeply involved monitoring advertising based on misleading claims, that targets the vulnerable with unhealthy products, and withholds information important to health decision-making.Keywords alternative medicine, ecotoxicology, global public health, epidemiology, genetically modified foods, factory farms, consumer protection legislation, green chemistry, bioremediation, sanitation, food and workplace safety, product safety, organic food standards |
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