Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health

Stephen Battersby

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781000599947
• Edition: 22
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Since its first publication in 1933, Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health (under its different names) has provided a definitive guide for the environmental health practitioner (EHP), and an essential reference for the consultant and student. This 22nd edition continues with its more recent successful structure, reviewing the core principles, techniques, competencies and skills required of an EHP, and then outlining the specialist subjects without getting bogged down in a legalistic approach, seeking to broaden the content for a more global audience.

This new edition seeks to educate the EHP on the public health impacts of global heating and the climate emergency and also reflects the COVID-19 pandemic, as might be expected. Although seeking to have global appeal, the impact of the UK leaving the EU is also addressed. The book examines environmental health in different settings, including in the military, working in both conflict and natural disaster settings, and environmental health at sea and airports. In line with previous editions, case studies are used to illustrate how EH problems have been resolved. This new edition includes guidance on key issues in public and environmental health including air pollution, contaminated land, housing and health, noise, water, food safety, pests and vector control, chemicals in the environment and radiation, as well as sustainability and public health and humanitarian crises.

This handbook aims to give a basic understanding of the philosophical basis of environmental health, as well as the required technical aspects and an understanding of environmental health in different settings. All chapters have sections on further reading and sources of information. Clay's Handbook is essential reading for all practitioners, students and researchers in environmental and public health wherever they are working.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• 1 Historical context, philosophy and principles of environmental health
• 2 The environmental health practitioner
• 3 Communication in environmental health
• 4 Research and evidence for environmental health policy and practice
• 5 Law and practice to achieve outcomes
• 6 Legal implications of the UK leaving the EU
• 7 Business management, environmental health and the EHP/business interface
• 8 Quality management systems: environmental management systems as examples
• 9 Constructions and related matters relevant to environmental health
• 10 Human physiology, hazards and health risks
• 11 Understanding and responding to the health and the climate emergency
• 12 Housing, health, and the domestic environment
• 13 The influence of society on the UK’s food and food regulatory systems
• 14 The work and leisure environments
• 15 Water and environmental health
• 16 Air quality
• 17 Pest management and vector control
• 18 Waste and resource management
• 19 Contaminated land and land use
• 20 Noise and vibration
• 21 Port health
• 22 Environmental health in different situations
• 23 A global perspective on environment and health
• Index