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,Environmental Health
Foundations for Public Health
Natalie Sampson, PhD, MPH
Lindsay Tallon, PhD, MSPH, CPH
Natasha DeJarnett, PhD, MPH, BCES
Editors
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, Contents
Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Environmental Health and Justice 1
Chapter 2: Environmental Health in Practice 8
Chapter 3: Confronting the Realities of Climate Change 15
Chapter 4: Environmental Health Policies and Protections:
Successes and Failures 22
Chapter 5: Environmental Health Science for the People 30
Chapter 6: Understanding (Unequal and Cumulative) Risks in Our
Daily Environment 38
Chapter 7: Understanding the Environment and How It Relates to
Health Using Toxicology and Epidemiology Research
Methods 44
Chapter 8: Mapping Environmental Health and Justice Issues 51
Chapter 9: Energy and Health 60
Chapter 10: The Air We Breathe 68
Chapter 11: Clean Water for All 76
Chapter 12: Food Safety, Security, and Sovereignty 84
Chapter 13: Waste and Sustainability 91
Chapter 14: Healthy Communities for All 97
Chapter 15: Preparing for and Recovering from Disasters in Our
Changing Climate 104
Chapter 16: Ensuring Occupational Health 112
Chapter 17: Ensuring Children’s Environmental Health and
Justice 119
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,Chapter 18: Integrating Environmental Health and Justice into
Healthcare 127
Chapter 19: Organizing for Environmental Health and Justice:
Lessons From #StopGeneralIron 135
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, CHAPTER 1
Fundamentals of Environmental Health and Justice
1. True/False: Environmental health is a vital component of public health, especially as
we confront global climate change.
Correct answer: True
2. Fill in the blank: _______________ events happen when a natural disaster (e.g.
floods, winter storms, wildfires, and hurricanes) and industrial accident occur
together.
Correct answer: Natural Hazards Triggering Technological Disasters (NATECH)
3. Which framework explicitly recognizes the interconnection between people, animals,
plants, and their shared environment:
a. Exposome
*b. One Health
c. Social Determinants of Health
d. Precision medicine
e. Cumulative impacts
Correct answer b.) One Health, which uniquely emphasizes the interconnected
health of people, animals, plants, and their shared environment through a
collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach. Exposome focuses on individual lifetime
exposures and their health impacts, not specifically on broader ecological
connections. Social Determinants of Health examines nonmedical factors affecting
human health, such as socioeconomic conditions, without explicitly linking to animal
or plant health. Precision Medicine tailors treatments based on genetic and epigenetic
insights into diseases, centering on individual human health rather than cross-species
ecosystem health. Cumulative Impacts assesses the overall burden of multiple
stressors on communities and ecosystems but lacks the specific focus on the
integrated health of humans, animals, and plants found in the One Health approach.
1
,4. Which are possible career paths one can take to work towards environmental health
and justice for all:
a. Urban and regional planner
b. Community organizer
c. Toxicologist
d. Elected official
*e. All of the above
Correct answer e.) Each career path contributes to environmental health and justice
from unique vantage points: Urban and regional planners might design sustainable,
equitable land use projects; community organizers can advocate for policies and
practices that ensure community voices are heard in environmental decisions;
toxicologists identify and mitigate hazardous exposures to protect health and the
environment; and elected officials have the authority to enact laws promoting
environmental justice and public health protections. Together, these roles embody a
comprehensive approach to advancing environmental health and justice for all.
5. List the five broad categories that make up the social determinants of health:
Correct answer: Economic stability; Education access and quality; Social and
community context; Health care access and quality; and Neighborhood and built
environment
6. Which of the following is true of environmental justice?
a. Environmental justice has been achieved in most communities in the United
States.
b. Environmental justice is a belief but not a social movement.
*c. Environmental justice entails recognizing the existence of intergenerational
justice.
d. Environmental justice focuses most heavily on equal access to healthcare.
Correct answer c.) Environmental justice focuses on how all individuals deserve
access to clean air, clean water, and a healthy community where everyone can thrive.
2
, Environmental justice is both a belief and a social movement. Environmental justice
has not been achieved in most communities. There are still many disparities that are
evident in many communities of color or those of different backgrounds. Although
environmental justice may involve equal access to healthcare, this is not the main
focus.
7. Which of the following is an example of environmental racism?
a. An increasing number of extreme weather events impacting a community of
color
b. Providing subpar education to children from communities of color
c. Converting an abandoned lot in a housing community known to have many
individuals from communities of color into a park
*d. Placing a landfill near a housing community known to have many individuals
from communities of color
Correct answer d.) Placing a landfill near a housing community known to have
individuals from communities of color is an example of environmental racism
because it negatively impacts the health of the community based on race or ethnicity.
An increasing number of extreme weather events is not an example of environmental
racism because weather cannot discriminate. Although extreme weather events may
impact communities of color in worse ways than other communities, the actual
weather events themselves are not an example of environmental racism. Providing
subpar education to children from communities of color is an example of racism, but
not environmental racism. Making use of an abandoned lot to provide green space for
a community of color is not an example of environmental racism.
8. What is the main purpose of the social determinants of health?
*a. To determine the upstream factors that shape environments and how
they are experienced
b. To understand the relationship between public health and the other
sectors
c. To design patient-centered interventions that focus on the health of
individuals
3
, d. To recognize the impact of politics and the private sector in influencing health
Correct answer a.) In public health, the social determinants of health are used to
recognize the upstream factors that shape the environments where individuals are
born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and how they are experienced. The social
determinants of health are not used to understand the relationship between public
health and other sectors; they are used to understand the relationship between health
and upstream factors. The social determinants of health can inform patient-centered
interventions and assist with understanding the impact of politics and the private
sector on health, but this is not the purpose of the social determinants of health.
9. Which of the following is an example of a Natural Hazards Triggering Technological
Disasters (NATECH) event?
*a. A hurricane causing damage to an industrial manufacturing facility which leads
to polluted groundwater
b. A tornado knocking down power lines and disrupting electricity to a residential
area
c. An ice storm resulting in vehicle accidents and road closures
d. A flood damaging the banks of a river which leads to increased debris in the
water
Correct answer a.) NATECH events occur when a natural disaster happens together
with an industrial accident. Since a hurricane causes damage to an industrial facility
that leads to polluted groundwater, this is an example of a NATECH event. The other
events are not examples of NATECH because although they involve natural disasters,
they did not cause an industrial accident that leads to pollution.
10. A researcher is studying the relationship between naturally occurring chemicals and
food additives in packaged food products. The researcher finds that the chemicals and
food additives cause more negative health outcomes when occurring together. This is
an example of which principle?
a. Precautionary principle
b. Exponential effect
4
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3- The file contains all Appendix and Excel sheet
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,Environmental Health
Foundations for Public Health
Natalie Sampson, PhD, MPH
Lindsay Tallon, PhD, MSPH, CPH
Natasha DeJarnett, PhD, MPH, BCES
Editors
,Copyright © 2025 Springer Publishing Company, LLC
All rights reserved.
This work is protected by U.S. copyright laws and is provided solely for the use of
instructors in teaching their courses and as an aid for student learning. No part of
this publication may be sold, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted
in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or
otherwise, without the prior permission of Springer Publishing Company, LLC.
Springer Publishing Company, LLC
902 Carnegie Center/Suite 140, Princeton, NJ 08540
www.springerpub.com
Test Bank ISBN: 978-0-8261-8355-2
Textbook ISBN: 978-0-8261-8352-1
The author and the publisher of this Work have made every effort to use sources
believed to be reliable to provide information that is accurate and compatible with the
standards generally accepted at the time of publication. The author and publisher
shall not be liable for any special, consequential, or exemplary damages resulting, in
whole or in part, from the readers’ use of, or reliance on, the information contained in
this book. The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of
URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication and
does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or
appropriate.
Copyright © Springer Publishing Company, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 2
, Contents
Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Environmental Health and Justice 1
Chapter 2: Environmental Health in Practice 8
Chapter 3: Confronting the Realities of Climate Change 15
Chapter 4: Environmental Health Policies and Protections:
Successes and Failures 22
Chapter 5: Environmental Health Science for the People 30
Chapter 6: Understanding (Unequal and Cumulative) Risks in Our
Daily Environment 38
Chapter 7: Understanding the Environment and How It Relates to
Health Using Toxicology and Epidemiology Research
Methods 44
Chapter 8: Mapping Environmental Health and Justice Issues 51
Chapter 9: Energy and Health 60
Chapter 10: The Air We Breathe 68
Chapter 11: Clean Water for All 76
Chapter 12: Food Safety, Security, and Sovereignty 84
Chapter 13: Waste and Sustainability 91
Chapter 14: Healthy Communities for All 97
Chapter 15: Preparing for and Recovering from Disasters in Our
Changing Climate 104
Chapter 16: Ensuring Occupational Health 112
Chapter 17: Ensuring Children’s Environmental Health and
Justice 119
Copyright © Springer Publishing Company, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 3
,Chapter 18: Integrating Environmental Health and Justice into
Healthcare 127
Chapter 19: Organizing for Environmental Health and Justice:
Lessons From #StopGeneralIron 135
Copyright © Springer Publishing Company, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 4
, CHAPTER 1
Fundamentals of Environmental Health and Justice
1. True/False: Environmental health is a vital component of public health, especially as
we confront global climate change.
Correct answer: True
2. Fill in the blank: _______________ events happen when a natural disaster (e.g.
floods, winter storms, wildfires, and hurricanes) and industrial accident occur
together.
Correct answer: Natural Hazards Triggering Technological Disasters (NATECH)
3. Which framework explicitly recognizes the interconnection between people, animals,
plants, and their shared environment:
a. Exposome
*b. One Health
c. Social Determinants of Health
d. Precision medicine
e. Cumulative impacts
Correct answer b.) One Health, which uniquely emphasizes the interconnected
health of people, animals, plants, and their shared environment through a
collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach. Exposome focuses on individual lifetime
exposures and their health impacts, not specifically on broader ecological
connections. Social Determinants of Health examines nonmedical factors affecting
human health, such as socioeconomic conditions, without explicitly linking to animal
or plant health. Precision Medicine tailors treatments based on genetic and epigenetic
insights into diseases, centering on individual human health rather than cross-species
ecosystem health. Cumulative Impacts assesses the overall burden of multiple
stressors on communities and ecosystems but lacks the specific focus on the
integrated health of humans, animals, and plants found in the One Health approach.
1
,4. Which are possible career paths one can take to work towards environmental health
and justice for all:
a. Urban and regional planner
b. Community organizer
c. Toxicologist
d. Elected official
*e. All of the above
Correct answer e.) Each career path contributes to environmental health and justice
from unique vantage points: Urban and regional planners might design sustainable,
equitable land use projects; community organizers can advocate for policies and
practices that ensure community voices are heard in environmental decisions;
toxicologists identify and mitigate hazardous exposures to protect health and the
environment; and elected officials have the authority to enact laws promoting
environmental justice and public health protections. Together, these roles embody a
comprehensive approach to advancing environmental health and justice for all.
5. List the five broad categories that make up the social determinants of health:
Correct answer: Economic stability; Education access and quality; Social and
community context; Health care access and quality; and Neighborhood and built
environment
6. Which of the following is true of environmental justice?
a. Environmental justice has been achieved in most communities in the United
States.
b. Environmental justice is a belief but not a social movement.
*c. Environmental justice entails recognizing the existence of intergenerational
justice.
d. Environmental justice focuses most heavily on equal access to healthcare.
Correct answer c.) Environmental justice focuses on how all individuals deserve
access to clean air, clean water, and a healthy community where everyone can thrive.
2
, Environmental justice is both a belief and a social movement. Environmental justice
has not been achieved in most communities. There are still many disparities that are
evident in many communities of color or those of different backgrounds. Although
environmental justice may involve equal access to healthcare, this is not the main
focus.
7. Which of the following is an example of environmental racism?
a. An increasing number of extreme weather events impacting a community of
color
b. Providing subpar education to children from communities of color
c. Converting an abandoned lot in a housing community known to have many
individuals from communities of color into a park
*d. Placing a landfill near a housing community known to have many individuals
from communities of color
Correct answer d.) Placing a landfill near a housing community known to have
individuals from communities of color is an example of environmental racism
because it negatively impacts the health of the community based on race or ethnicity.
An increasing number of extreme weather events is not an example of environmental
racism because weather cannot discriminate. Although extreme weather events may
impact communities of color in worse ways than other communities, the actual
weather events themselves are not an example of environmental racism. Providing
subpar education to children from communities of color is an example of racism, but
not environmental racism. Making use of an abandoned lot to provide green space for
a community of color is not an example of environmental racism.
8. What is the main purpose of the social determinants of health?
*a. To determine the upstream factors that shape environments and how
they are experienced
b. To understand the relationship between public health and the other
sectors
c. To design patient-centered interventions that focus on the health of
individuals
3
, d. To recognize the impact of politics and the private sector in influencing health
Correct answer a.) In public health, the social determinants of health are used to
recognize the upstream factors that shape the environments where individuals are
born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and how they are experienced. The social
determinants of health are not used to understand the relationship between public
health and other sectors; they are used to understand the relationship between health
and upstream factors. The social determinants of health can inform patient-centered
interventions and assist with understanding the impact of politics and the private
sector on health, but this is not the purpose of the social determinants of health.
9. Which of the following is an example of a Natural Hazards Triggering Technological
Disasters (NATECH) event?
*a. A hurricane causing damage to an industrial manufacturing facility which leads
to polluted groundwater
b. A tornado knocking down power lines and disrupting electricity to a residential
area
c. An ice storm resulting in vehicle accidents and road closures
d. A flood damaging the banks of a river which leads to increased debris in the
water
Correct answer a.) NATECH events occur when a natural disaster happens together
with an industrial accident. Since a hurricane causes damage to an industrial facility
that leads to polluted groundwater, this is an example of a NATECH event. The other
events are not examples of NATECH because although they involve natural disasters,
they did not cause an industrial accident that leads to pollution.
10. A researcher is studying the relationship between naturally occurring chemicals and
food additives in packaged food products. The researcher finds that the chemicals and
food additives cause more negative health outcomes when occurring together. This is
an example of which principle?
a. Precautionary principle
b. Exponential effect
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