The Environment & Your Health

Everything around us impacts our health—not only the air we breathe and what we drink and eat, but also the neighborhoods and buildings in which we live, work, study, and play. Environmental health serves as a discipline within public health concerned with identifying and measuring the effects of environmental factors (physical, biological, and chemical) on human health. This lecture will provide a broad introduction to the potential for agents (in our air, water, food, and more) to cause adverse effects on human health.