Environment and Health

The study of links between environment and health involves examination of those aspects of human health influenced by the physical, social, biological, psychosocial, chemical, economic, political, and cultural environments within which we live, work, and play. Examples abound: the disappearance of the Aral Sea, a fourfold increase in asthma since the mid‐1990s, babies dying of contaminated water in the developed world (e.g., in Walkerton, …