1st Edition
Tackling Health Inequalities Reinventing the Role of Environmental Health
By Surindar Kishen Dhesi
Copyright 2019
112 Pages
by
Routledge
110 Pages
by
Routledge
110 Pages
by
Routledge
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Although environmental health has received some recognition as a field which can positively impact on the social determinants of health, it remains little known outside its immediate sphere of influence. There is also limited literature available to support the potential impact of the profession in public health policy circles, and there has been an overreliance on anecdotal rather than firm... Read more
- Introduction
- Environmental health as a public health profession
- Tackling health inequalities
- Public health policymaking
- Environmental health (in)visibility
- The future of environmental health in public health
- Conclusions
Biography
Surindar Dhesi is a lecturer and course leader of the MSc Science of Occupational Health, Safety and Environment at the University of Birmingham. She is also an active Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
