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                                           UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC HEALTH                                                         TH
                                           SERIES EDITORS:NICK BLACK & ROSALIND RAINE
                                           Environment, Health and                        There is an increasing
                                           Sustainable Development                        global awareness of the
                                           Longstanding evidence of the links             inevitable limits of                   Envir
                                                                                          individual health care and
                                           between the environment and health have        of the need to complement              onment, Health and Sustainable DevelopmentEnvironment,
                                           led to a recognition of the need for           such services with effective
                                           sustainable development. This is equally       public health strategies.
                                           true in low, middle and high income            Understanding Public Health
                                           countries.  One of the great challenges for    is an innovative series of                                                                    Health and
                                           public health practitioners is to              twenty books, published by
                                           understand and try to modify the               Open University Press in
                                           relationship between the environment           collaboration with the
                                           and health in the face of development.         London School of Hygiene                                                                  Sustainable
                                           This book examines the underlying              & Tropical Medicine.
                                           concepts, the history of environmental         It provides self-directed
                                           health, and the key factors that affect        learning covering the major
                                           public health including:                       issues in public health
                                                ◗ Air pollution                           affecting low, middle and                                                      Development
                                                ◗ Water contamination                     high income countries.
                                                ◗ Industrial hazards                      The series is aimed at those
                                                ◗ Agricultural hazards                    studying public health,
                                           The increasing impact of global                either by distance learning
                                           environmental issues is explored as they       or more traditional
                                           affect countries throughout the world.         methods, as well as public
                                                                                          health practitioners and
                                           Megan Landonwas Research Fellow in             policy makers.                         Megan Landon
                                           Epidemiology at the London School of
                                           Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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     Environment, Health and
     Sustainable Development
           Understanding Public Health
           Series editors: Nick Black and Rosalind Raine, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
           Throughout the world, recognition of the importance of public health to sustainable, safe and
           healthy societies is growing. The achievements of public health in nineteenth-century Europe were
           for much of the twentieth century overshadowed by advances in personal care, in particular in
           hospital care. Now, with the dawning of a new century, there is increasing understanding of the
           inevitable limits of individual health care and of the need to complement such services with effective
           public health strategies. Major improvements in people’s health will come from controlling com-
           municable diseases, eradicating environmental hazards, improving people’s diets and enhancing
           the availability and quality of effective health care. To achieve this, every country needs a cadre of
           knowledgeable public health practitioners with social, political and organizational skills to lead and
           bring about changes at international, national and local levels.
           This is one of a series of 20 books that provides a foundation for those wishing to join in and
           contribute to the twenty-first-century regeneration of public health, helping to put the concerns and
           perspectives of public health at the heart of policy-making and service provision. While each book
           stands alone, together they provide a comprehensive account of the three main aims of public health:
           protecting the public from environmental hazards, improving the health of the public and ensuring
           high quality health services are available to all. Some of the books focus on methods, others on key
           topics. They have been written by staff at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine with
           considerable experience of teaching public health to students from low, middle and high income
           countries. Much of the material has been developed and tested with postgraduate students both in
           face-to-face teaching and through distance learning.
           The books are designed for self-directed learning. Each chapter has explicit learning objectives, key
           terms are highlighted and the text contains many activities to enable the reader to test their own
           understanding of the ideas and material covered. Written in a clear and accessible style, the series will
           be essential reading for students taking postgraduate courses in public health and will also be of
           interest to public health practitioners and policy-makers.
           Titles in the series
           Analytical models for decision making: Colin Sanderson and Reinhold Gruen
           Controlling communicable disease: Norman Noah (ed)
           Economic analysis for management and policy: Stephen Jan, Lilani Kumaranayake,
            Jenny Roberts, Kara Hanson and Kate Archibald
           Economic evaluation: Julia Fox-Rushby and John Cairns (eds)
           Environmental epidemiology: Paul Wilkinson (ed)
           Environment, health and sustainable development: Megan Landon
           Environmental health policy: David Ball (ed)
           Financial management in health services: Reinhold Gruen and Anne Howarth
           Global change and health: Kelley Lee and Jeff Collin (eds)
           Health care evaluation: Sarah Smith, Don Sinclair, Rosalind Raine and Barnaby Reeves
           Health promotion practice: Wendy Macdowall, Chris Bonell and Maggie Davies  (eds)
           Health promotion theory: Maggie Davies and Wendy Macdowall (eds)
           Introduction to epidemiology: Lucianne Bailey, Katerina Vardulaki, Julia Langham and
            Daniel Chandramohan
           Introduction to health economics: David Wonderling, Reinhold Gruen and Nick Black
           Issues in public health: Joceline Pomerleau and Martin McKee (eds)
           Making health policy: Kent Buse, Nicholas Mays and Gill Walt
           Managing health services: Nick Goodwin, Reinhold Gruen and Valerie Iles
           Medical anthropology: Robert Pool and Wenzel Geissler
           Principles of social research: Judith Green and John Browne (eds)
           Understanding health services: Nick Black and Reinhold Gruen
          Environment, Health
          and Sustainable
          Development
          Megan Landon
          Open University Press