Another thing we must consider is the environmental health. We are advocating not just the welfare of the environment but also the aspect of affecting the human health. We must consider ourself as one of the beneficiaries in maintaining our healthy lifestyle. Because we cannot do such task to improve our environment if we ourselves don't have the capacity to move because of health implications acquired from degradation of environment.
Environmental health is the branch of public health that is concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment that may affect human health. Other terms that concern or refer to the discipline of environmental health include environmental public health and environmental health and protection.
Environmental health is defined by the World Health Organization as:
Those aspects of the human health and disease that are determined by factors in the environment. It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing and controlling factors in the environment that can potentially affect health.
Environmental health as used by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, includes both the direct pathological effects of chemicals, radiation and some biological agents, and the effects (often indirect) on health and wellbeing of the broad physical, psychological, social and cultural environment, which includes housing, urban development, land use and transport.
If we already achieve sustaining environmental health and human health, we can already work it out much more than we expected.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_health
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