Rebuilding the unity of health and the environment : the Greater Houston Metropolitan Area : a workshop summary / Lovell Jones, John Porretto, and Christine M. Coussens, editors ; Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine ; Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Jones, Lovell A.

Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Porretto, John.

Coussens, Christine.

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine.

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Board on Health Sciences Policy.

Conference Name:

Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine (2004 : Washington, D.C.)

Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental health--Texas--Houston Metropolitan Area.

Environmental health.

Public health--Texas--Houston Metropolitan Area.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Houston is struggling with many of the environmental problems that most of the nation's major metropolitan areas are struggling with - transportation, water and air pollution, flooding, and major demographic changes. Therefore, Houston provided an excellent site for a regional meeting on the relationship between environment and health. The purpose of this workshop in Houston was to bring all the stakeholders together - the private and public sector, along with representatives of the diverse communities in Houston - to discuss the impact of the natural, built, and social environments on human health. Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment summarizes the presentations and discussions of this workshop. The lessons one may draw from this meeting's presentations and discussions apply to other regions that are undergoing similar changes and that must also contend, as does Houston, with the legacies of insufficient planning, environmentally deficient planning, or sometimes, no planning at all.

Contents:

FrontMatter

Reviewers

Preface

Contents

Summary

1 Introduction

2 Environmental Health Overview

3 Natural Environment

4 Social Environment

5 Built Environment

References

Appendixes

Appendix A Workshop Agenda

Appendix B Speakers and Panelists

Appendix C Workshop Participants.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610173754

9780309165280

0309165288

9781280173752

1280173750

9780309546461

030954646X

OCLC:

58553561