Environmental Health Policy Guides
Environmental Health Policy Guides Environmental health is concerned with how interactions between humans and their environments impact human health. The field emerged to protect people from chemical or biological threats in their environment like air pollution and waterborne diseases. More recently, the field focuses on creating health promoting environments, such as homes, workplaces, schools, neighborhoods and communities. Human-environment interactions are complex, and issues are often under the jurisdiction of multiple agencies or organizations. For example, environmental agencies may be responsible for air and water quality and natural resource agencies for energy creation. Therefore, improving overall population health necessitates cross-sectoral collaboration on policies, programs, and projects. Health in All Policies (HiAP) provides a framework for working with other sectors to address these multifaceted issues. In order to promote the cross-sector collaborations taking place at the local, state and federal levels, ASTHO is developing a series of topic-specific, evidence-based policy guides. The guides catalogue policies and programs that link environmental issues that have benefited from a health perspective. These guides are developed with feedback from a range of subject matter experts, CDC, as well as ASTHO’s HiAP Steering Committee and Advisory Groups. website yes