page_title: Environmental health
hierarchical_section_title: Environmental health
caption_attribution_description: The 2016 EPI builds on measures relevant to the goal of reducing environmental stresses to human health, which are grouped into one policy objective named environmental health. Environmental health scores are based on three constituent policy categories: health impacts, air quality, and water and sanitation. All indicators and composite indices in the EPI are normalized as a 0–100 proximity-to-target score, with 100 representing &quot;at target&quot; and 0 being furthest from the target. The Environmental Performance Index, 2016 Release (1950-2016) data set is part of the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) collection. See more information at &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.7927/H4FX77CS" rel="nofollow"&gt;doi.org/10.7927/H4FX77CS&lt;/a&gt;.
context_page_description: Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health. Environmental health is focused on the natural and built environments for the benefit of human health. The major subdisciplines of environmental health are: environmental science; environmental and occupational medicine, toxicology and epidemiology.
  Other terms referring to or concerning environmental health are environmental public health, and health protection.
context_section_description: Environmental health is the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health. Environmental health is focused on the natural and built environments for the benefit of human health. The major subdisciplines of environmental health are: environmental science; environmental and occupational medicine, toxicology and epidemiology.
  Other terms referring to or concerning environmental health are environmental public health, and health protection.
caption: Environmental health indicator (2016). It consists of 3 categories: health impacts, air quality, and water and sanitation. The health impacts category includes the environmental risk exposure indicator.
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