COVID-19 : the global environmental health experience / Chris Day ; with contributions from Rob Couch and Surindar Dhesi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Day, Chris, author.

Series:

Routledge focus on environmental health.

Routledge focus on environmental health

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 (Disease)--Environmental aspects.

COVID-19 (Disease).

Environmental health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

"This book is devoted to the efforts of Environmental Health Practitioners (EHPs), their employer organisations and supportive professional bodies worldwide in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Series preface

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

1 Countdown to the pandemic: an Environmental Health point of view

1.1 Introduction

1.2 SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic

1.3 Public Health

1.4 Environmental Health

1.5 The practice of Environmental Health

1.6 Health protection

1.7 The health protection 'vision' becomes blurred

1.8 Overview of the response to COVID-19

1.8.1 January

1.8.2 February

1.8.3 March

1.9 The book in outline

2 Discovering an Environmental Health perspective on COVID-19

2.1 Focus and background of the book

2.2 Targeting 'practitioners of Environmental Health'

2.3 Informing the book

2.4 Reconciling global differences in Environmental Health practice

2.5 Organising the responses

2.6 Post-script

3 Early impact of COVID-19 on Environmental Health practice

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Work undertaken before the COVID-19 epidemic took hold

3.3 Preparedness to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and why?

3.4 Reasons for lack of preparedness

3.5 Reasons for heightened preparedness

3.6 The initial impact of the pandemic on routine (non-COVID) work

3.7 How COVID-19 caused environmental health to re-think its priorities on practice

3.8 Discovering 'new ways of working'

3.9 Taking a world view on the environmental health response to COVID-19

3.9.1 Australia

3.9.2 Malaysia

3.9.3 New Zealand

3.9.4 Africa

4 How environmental health practitioners responded to COVID-19

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Providing guidance and regulatory direction to businesses

4.3 Delivering information and advice to the public

4.4 COVID-19 and food safety

4.5 COVID-19 and occupational health, safety and hygiene

4.6 COVID-19 and housing.

4.6.1 'Overcrowding' and the residential spread of COVID-19

4.6.2 Dealing with poor house conditions aggravated by COVID-19

4.6.3 Reaching those in poor living conditions challenged by COVID-19

4.6.4 Finding novel ways to respond to the impact of COVID-19 on housing

4.7 COVID-19 and environmental protection

4.8 Involvement of EHPs in local and regional disease control initiatives

4.9 Involvement of EHPs in centralised and local 'testtrace-isolate' systems

4.10 Involvement of environmental health academics in the pandemic

4.11 Involvement of the military environmental health cadre in the pandemic

4.12 A very personal account

5 How Environmental Health practitioners met the challenges (and discovered opportunities) arising from the COVID-19 pandemic

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Early challenges encountered during the COVID-19 pandemic

5.2.1 Staffing, resources, and infrastructure

5.2.2 Keeping up-to-date and making sense of legislation and guidance

5.2.3 Not being recognised or appreciated

5.2.4 Difficultly in establishing channels of communication and understanding

5.2.5 Intransigence and denial

5.3 Opportunities presented by the COVID-19 pandemic

5.3.1 'Making a difference'

5.3.2 Strengthening relationships, both internally and externally

5.3.3 Building professional partnerships through 'joint working'

5.3.4 'Joint working' - not new … and not always without its challenges

5.3.5 Teaching environmental health - finding 'opportunities' under adversity

5.3.6 Opportunity to ensure job security and enhance career progression

5.4 How the COVID-19 pandemic altered perceptions of Environmental Health

5.4.1 'It has altered perceptions of EH for the good'

5.4.2 'It has altered perceptions of EH … but more needs to be done'.

5.4.3 'It has altered perceptions of EH … but far more needs to be done'

5.4.4 'It hasn't altered perceptions of EH yet … but it still might'

6 Support for the practitioners

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Professional bodies

6.2.1 International Federation of Environmental Health

6.2.2 Environmental Health Australia

6.2.3 National Environmental Health Association (the United States)

6.2.4 Chartered Institute of Environmental Health

6.3 Membership bodies - the Local Government Association

6.4 Academic and Learned Institutions

6.5 Ad hoc support for Environmental Health practitioners

6.5.1 Sharing good practice: the UK COVID-19 Knowledge Hub

6.5.2 Advocating for EHPs: the UK Chief Environmental Health Officers Group

7 Reflections on the global Environmental Health response … so far

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The big picture

7.3 The Environmental Health response

7.4 Preparedness to respond and deploy

7.5 Maintain 'business as usual' or 'seize the day'?

7.6 How COVID-19 exposed the diminished Environmental Health resource

7.7 How the COVID-19 pandemic shone a light on health inequality and inequity

7.8 Environmental Health comes of age

7.9 Environmental Health answers the call … but was it the right call?

7.10 A clear 'force for good' … but could EHPs be doing more?

8 Learning lessons from the global Environmental Health response to COVID-19 so far - conclusions and recommendations

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Regaining a 'visible' Public Health presence for Environmental Health

8.3 Establishing the best point of delivery for public health measures

8.4 Seeing and being seen - research as the 'torch to visibility'

8.5 How COVID-19 caused EHPs to 'win friends and influence people'

8.6 Building on the global Environmental Health experience.

8.7 Reaffirming the credentials of Environmental Health after COVID-19

8.8 Maintaining the rigour of the qualification

8.9 Enhancing the EHP skill base in epidemiology

8.10 Governments must equip EHPs with the essentials

8.11 Increasing the permanent bank of Public Health professionals

8.12 Re-evaluating the investment in the Environmental Health workforce

8.13 Preventing the future eclipse of Environmental Health

8.14 Is the EHP's 'health protection' role being missed in their title?

8.15 Enhancing the role of local EHPs in 'test-trace-isolate'

8.16 Recognising that the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is not unprecedented, should not set 'lives against livelihoods', and is far from over

8.17 A 'one world, one health' vision for Environmental Health

8.18 Final word

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-315722-X

1-000-43351-X

1-003-15722-X

1-000-43354-4

9781003157229

OCLC:

1257078153