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Advancesinthefieldofenvironmentalhealthhavetaughtusmuchabouthumanhealth hazards; for example, air pollution can cause respiratory disease, heavy metals can cause neurotoxicity, global climate change is likely to fuel the spread of infectious diseases. Common sense tells us that a sound environment is important to human health. However, only in recent years have science and technology provided us with ways to measure the correlation between a healthy environment and a healthy body. The natural environment in which we spend our days and the national and international community in which environmental protections must be negotiated provides both a local and a global perspective by which to consider environmental health (Institute of Medicine (US), 2001).
Human activity is rapidly transforming most of Earth’s natural systems. How this transformation is impacting human health, whose health is at greatest risk, and the magnitude of the associated disease burden are relatively new subjects within the field of environmental health. Land-use changes that alter human-wildlife interactions can be an important source of zoonotic disease. Human encroachment into wildlife habitat and the hunting and consumption of wild meat can provide public health benefits as they provide new land for agriculture and, in the case of bushmeat, rich sources of nutrients, but these activities also create the potential for zoonotic infections to move from animal to human populations. There is compelling evidence that these mechanisms played the central role in initial outbreaks of HIV and the Ebola virus, as well as several lesser-known zoonoses. The power of these shifts in animal-human interactions to affect disease transmission helps to explain the fact that roughly 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses (Myers et al, 2013)
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Institute of Medicine (US). (2001). Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: A New Vision of Environmental Health for the 21st Century. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US). 3, Human Health and the Natural Environment. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK99584/
Myers, S. S., Gaffikin, L., Golden, C. D., Ostfeld, R. S., Redford, K. H., Ricketts, T. H., Turner, W. R., & Osofsky, S. A. (2013). Human health impacts of ecosystem alteration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(47), 18753–18760. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1218656110
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