tailieunhanh - Creating A Healthy Environment: The Impact of the Built Environment on Public Health

The unprecedented prospect of human-induced (rapid) changes to the global climate has prompted a large international scientific effort to assess the evidence. The IPCC, established within the UN framework in 1988, was charged with advis- ing national governments on the causes and processes of climate change; likely impacts and their associated costs; and ways to lessen the impacts. The IPCC’s Third Assessment Report (2001) projects an increase in average world surface temperature ranging from to °C over the course of the twenty-first century (see Figure ). That estimation, with its wide range, is drawn from a large number of different global climate models and a range of. | Creating A Healthy Environment The Impact of the Built Environment on Public Health In its broadest sense environmental health comprises those aspects of human health disease and injury that are determined or influenced by factors in the environment. This includes not only the study of the direct pathological effects of various chemical physical and biological agents but also the effects on health of the broad physical and social environment which includes housing urban development land-use and transportation industry and agriculture. -Healthy People 2010 . Department of Health and Human Services 1 Richard J. Jackson MD MPH Chris Kochtitzky MSP Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse Monograph Series Acknowledgements Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse would like to thank Jonathan Dushoff of Princeton University Peter Engelke of the City and Regional Planning Program College of Architecture Georgia Institute of Technology Karen Roof of the National Association of County and City Health Officials Marla Hollander of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Rich Killingsworth of the CDC s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Pat Meehan of the CDC s National Center for Environmental Health Lee Epstein of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation Chuck Connerly of the Florida State University Department of Urban and Regional Planning Bob Deyle of the Florida State University Department of Urban and Regional Planning Rebecca Miles of the Florida State University Department of Urban and Regional Planning Rich Shieber of the CDC s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Bruce Stiftel of the Florida State University Department of Urban and Regional Planning Dorothy Sussman of the CDC s National Center for Environmental Health Patti Seikus of the CDC s National Center for Environmental Health Don Lollar of the CDC s National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Maisha Kambon CDC s National Center for .