Environmental Public Health: Exploring the Connections

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Environmental Public Health Exploring the
Connections

• Erv Ball and Catherine Zeman
• Co-chairs, MSWG,Environmental Public Health
  SubComm.

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What is the first thing you think of when you
hear, Health Inspector?

• Safe Food, and so much more!
• Health and
• Environmental disease
• Toxins
• Pests
• Water and Air Quality
• Home Sanitation

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Historically and Intuitively

• Tribal peoples
• Religious Codes
• Appealing to the divine
• Water pipes!

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Tribal Peoples
The 7th Generation
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Religious Codes and Appealing to the Divine
Charles Church
Deuteronomy
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Water Pipes
Roman Water Pipes
John Snow
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Public Health Success
Technology
Innovation
Economic Security
Environmental Protection
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Speaking of Water

• Water Shortage
• Major water shortages are predicted in the 21st
  century
• Public vs. private
• Commodity pricing
• Ethics and feedbacks?

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Speaking of Water

• Water Contamination
• So many contaminantsso little time
• DDT
• Public health realities
• Public fears
• Moral dilemmas and risks

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Speaking of Water

• Water Protection
• Right of ways vs. grass ways
• Mosquitoes, atrazine, and parasites
• How to weigh costs and benefits

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Challenges

• Civilizations come and go.
• What if we can be the generation that perseveres
  and transcends?
• Transcends what?
• Technological stagnation and our own blindness's
  (nemesis factors).
• What can we become if we can attain
  sustainability?

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Our Challenge

• To brainstorm about, to propose, and to test out
  ideas outside the box.
• What kind of sustainable world can you envision?