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Teaching Environmental Health to Children: An Interdisciplinary Approach

By David W. Hursh , Camille A. Martina , Hilarie B. Davis , Michael A. Trush (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2012
ISBN
9400718101, 9789400718104
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-1811-1
ISSN
2191-5547
Google Books ID
ivQRTUSi_cUC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
646 kB (661675 bytes)
Series
SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
Edition
1
Pages
93\104
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-14 18:00:00
Environmental Health; Education (general); Medicingeneral; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention;

Description

Every day we are exposed to toxins and toxicants that can impact our health. Yet we rarely teach elementary and secondary students about these exposures and how they can reduce their risk to them. In this book we highlight activities and curriculum developed at nine universities in the United States from a grant funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Our goal is to extend these lessons to a global audience and for classroom teachers of all subjects and age levels to include environmental health in their teaching. ‘An invaluable tool for equipping informed citizens to think about the environment and its human impacts --both the science, and equally important, the social and ethical dimensions’ , Howard Frumkin, M.D., Dr. P.H., Dean, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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