Chapter 8: Environmental Health and Safety
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American Public Health Association: Environmental Health (https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/environmental-health)
Robert Wood Johnson Health Communities (https://www.rwjf.org/en/our-focus-areas/focus-areas/healthy-communities.html)
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CDC Walkable Communities (https://tools.cdc.gov/medialibrary/index.aspx#/media/id/303309)
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Step it Up! Help Make Our Communities Walkable
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https://youtu.be/mq3DxArKAEo
how climate affects community health – full video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JywsWktvODc&t=69s)
how climate affects community health – full video
Improving Public Health Through Community Design | Gary Gaston | TEDxNashvilleSalon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_M04dK5jx4)
Improving Public Health Through Community Design | Gary Gaston | TEDxNashvilleSalon
How the environment affects fertility, pregnancy, and childhood development (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6XqDRdGScY)
How the environment affects fertility, pregnancy, and childhood development
Air pollution a major global public health issue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tds3k97aAzo)
Air pollution a major global public health issue
AAP renews public health approach to gun injury prevention (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLAgzbRhCg)
AAP renews public health approach to gun injury prevention
Where You Live Has a Huge Impact on Your Health (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNzFnHL-8Zk)
Where You Live Has a Huge Impact on Your Health
This week explores the environment and how it effects our health. After you complete the above readings and review the websites, walk or drive around your neighborhood and identify the potential public health risks within your own environment. Identify the risks factors and how they can effect the health of individuals living and working within the community. Discuss with your classmates potential ways to change and improve the environment you live in.
