Teaching Environmental Health to Children [electronic resource] : An Interdisciplinary Approach /
Hursh, David W.author.
Martina, Camille A.author.
Davis, Hilarie B.author.
Trush, Michael A.author.
Every day we are exposed to toxins and toxicants that can impact our health.  Yet we rarely teach elementary and secondary students about these exposures and how they can reduce their risk to them.  In this book we highlight activities and curriculum developed at nine universities in the United States from a grant funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.  Our goal is to extend these lessons to a global audience and for classroom teachers of all subjects and age levels to include environmental health in their teaching.  'An invaluable tool for equipping informed citizens to think about the environment and its human impacts --both the science, and equally important, the social and ethical dimensions' , Howard Frumkin, M.D., Dr. P.H., Dean, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Teaching Environmental Health to Children; Preface; References; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Environmental Health as an Interdisciplinary Subject; Abstract; Introduction; The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; References; 2 The Science of Environmental Public Health; Abstract; Introduction; We Live in a World of Environmental Hazards; ''Does 'The Dose Make the Poison'?''; What Happens Following Exposure?; How Do Chemicals Cause Toxicity?; What Accounts for Differences in Response Between Individuals?
Linking Environmental Exposures to Human Disease: Environmental EpidemiologyConnecting Exposure to Disease Risk: Environmental Risk Assessment and Communication; Putting it all Together Through Case Studies: Mercury and Dioxin as Examples; Case Study on Mercury; Case Study on Dioxin; Social and Psychosocial Factors: New Dimensions of Human Health and the Environment; Summary; References; 3 Environmental Health Curriculum; Abstract; Introduction; Toxicology; Soil and Water; Living Downstream: Potable Water and Human Health: A Unit for Late Elementary and Early Secondary Students; Food
Atmospheric and Marine-Based Interdisciplinary Environmental Health TrainingLead: A Heavy Metal; Lead Poisoning; At What Level is Lead Toxic and What are the Consequences?; Suggested Lessons on Lead; Air Quality: Problem-Based-Learning; Indoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries: An Environmental and Public Health Challenge; Interdisciplinary Lens of Environmental Health; References; 4 Working for Social and Environmental Justice Through Environmental Health; Abstract; Introduction; Is Environmental Health a Basic Human Right?
What is Social Justice, Environmental Justice, and Ecological Justice?Teaching Environmental Justice; Examining Toxicants in the Environment and Developing Public Policy and Citizenship Skills; Bug Killer Toxicity; Environmental Justice Module About Virginia Key; References; 5 Erratum to: Teaching Environmental Health to Children; Further Reading; Toxicology; Books; Organizations; Water; Air Pollution; Lead; Children's Health; Author Biographies; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Every day we are exposed to toxins and toxicants that can impact our health.  Yet we rarely teach elementary and secondary students about these exposures and how they can reduce their risk to them.  In this book we highlight activities and curriculum developed at nine universities in the United States from a grant funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.  Our goal is to extend these lessons to a global audience and for classroom teachers of all subjects and age levels to include environmental health in their teaching.  'An invaluable tool for equipping informed citizens to think about the environment and its human impacts --both the science, and equally important, the social and ethical dimensions' , Howard Frumkin, M.D., Dr. P.H., Dean, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Environmental health.
Education.
Medicine.
Health promotion.
Environmental law.
Environmental policy.
Environmental Health.
Education, general.
Medicine/Public Health, general.
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.
SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science