Environmental Health: Understanding Current Issues and Solutions of the 21st Century. 2nd Edition

      Аннотация: The book Environmental Health: Understanding of Current Issues and Solutions of the 21st Century is coming at an appropriate time. The world is facing facets of environmental issues, especially with health related consequences.The 2012 flood in Nigeria with its attendant health impact is one issue too many. This book, therefore, focuses on health in the 21st century with emphasis on sustainability management, natural disasters, climate change and its impact, spill incident, poverty, deforestation in the South and ecosystem and biodiversity loss, environmental degradation and population health.Environmental health addresses all the various environmental factors/ escalations and its impact on health. Environmental health is a broad base multidisciplinary area and this book addresses aspects such as sanitary inspection, epidemiology and disease control, food hygiene and safety, health education and promotion, housing sanitation, air quality, occupational health and safety, pollution. You will find the section on terrorism fascinating and the review of Nigeria emergency response capability.“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” — Goethe

Ключевые слова: environmental issues, understanding current issues, and solutions, of the 21st century, Edwin Isotu Edeh, health related consequences, 2012 flood in Nigeria, health impact, sustainanility management, Natural Disasters, Climate change, spill incident, poverty