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SUMMARY:Environments and human health - Sally Macintyre\, Institute of Hea
 lth and Wellbeing\, University of Glasgow
DTSTART:20120608T120000Z
DTEND:20120608T130000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Simon Richard White
DESCRIPTION:Airs\, Waters\, Places\, written by Hippocrates in the fifth c
 entury BC\, was one of the earliest texts on the influence of the environm
 ent on health.  The health effects of industrialisation in the 19th centur
 y prompted considerable concern in many countries about the effects of dif
 ferent types of environments on human health and disease\, often leading t
 o legislation to regulate environmental exposures to protect the populatio
 n.  Scholarly and policy Interest in healthy or unhealthy environments wan
 ed following the clear success of major interventions such as clean water 
 and air\, the epidemiological transition to chronic diseases\, and an asso
 ciated focus on individual health damaging behaviours.  However in the las
 t couple of decades environmental influences on mental and physical health
  and health behaviours have come back onto research and political agendas 
 (most recently in the shape of ‘choice architecture’).  This presentat
 ion will cover what human beings need in order to live a healthy life\, an
 d how various features of the environment might help and hinder the meetin
 g of these needs. It will describe recent empirical and theoretical develo
 pments and challenges in the study of environments and health\, and how th
 ese might relate to policy.
LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, 1st Floor\, Institute of Public Health\, Uni
 versity Forvie Site\, Robinson Way\, Cambridge
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