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"What is environmental health?

This section gives information about what environmental health is, and why the environment is important to human health.

What is environmental health?

The environment can directly and indirectly impact on our health and wellbeing. Environmental health examines the interaction between the environment and our health.

We use the following definitions:

Environmentals to aspects of human health (including quality of life) that are determined by physical, chemical, biological, social and psychosocial factors in the environment.
Environment cludes everything external to ourselves, including the physical, natural, social and behavioral environments.
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and is not merely the absence of disease or illness.

Why is the environment important for health?

We need safe, healthy and supportive environments for good health. The environment in which we live is a major determinant of our health and wellbeing. We depend on the environment for energy and the materials needed to sustain life, such as:

clean air
safe drinking water
nutritious food
safe places to live.

Many aspects of our environment – both built and natural environment – can impact on our health. It’s important that we interpret health issues in the wider context of our environment and where we live

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