Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: A New Vision of Environmental Health for the 21st Century. Workshop Summary

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January 22, 2001

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IOM's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine held a workshop in June 2000; this report is a summary of that workshop. The goal of this workshop was to emphasize the connection between human health and the natural, built, and social environments.

Many believe that a new vision is needed because the infrastructure for linking environmental and public health is not working as well as it should. The summary reports presentations by invited experts on the relationships between human health and the environment as defined in various ways.

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