Reviews: The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health Movement

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-243
Author(s):  
Dave Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Movement ◽  
The U.S

The Roles of Government in Protecting and Promoting Occupational and Environmental Health

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory R. Wagner ◽  
Emily A. Spieler
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Mine Safety ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Standards And Regulations ◽  
Regulatory Interventions ◽  
The Government ◽  
The U.S

This chapter discusses the roles of government in promoting occupational and environmental health, with a focus on the U.S. federal government. Governmental interventions, as described here, can range from non-regulatory interventions, such as dissemination of information or generation and communication of information, to establishing regulatory requirements through the promulgation and enforcement of standards and regulations. The chapter describes the U.S. laws and roles of the administrative agencies responsible for occupational and environmental health, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Mine Safety and Health Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Noting the budgetary and political constraints on these federal agencies, the chapter goes on to discuss briefly the role of the public and the states. The government also plays a role when preventive efforts fail, and the chapter provides a brief summary of programs designed to provide compensation to injured workers.

scholarly journals Food Worker Experiences with and Beliefs about Working While Ill†

2013 ◽  
Vol 76 (12) ◽  
pp. 2146-2154 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. RAND CARPENTER ◽  
ALICE L. GREEN ◽  
DAWN M. NORTON ◽  
ROBERTA FRICK ◽  
MELISSA TOBIN-D'ANGELO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disease Control ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Foodborne Pathogens ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Foodborne Illness ◽  
Job Responsibilities ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Food Workers ◽  
The U.S

Transmission of foodborne pathogens from ill food workers to diners in restaurants is an important cause of foodborne illness outbreaks. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends that food workers with vomiting or diarrhea (symptoms of foodborne illness) be excluded from work. To understand the experiences and characteristics of workers who work while ill, workplace interviews were conducted with 491 food workers from 391 randomly selected restaurants in nine states that participated in the Environmental Health Specialists Network of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Almost 60% of workers recalled working while ill at some time. Twenty percent of workers said that they had worked while ill with vomiting or diarrhea for at least one shift in the previous year. Factors significantly related to workers having said that they had worked while ill with vomiting or diarrhea were worker sex, job responsibilities, years of work experience, concerns about leaving coworkers short staffed, and concerns about job loss. These findings suggest that the decision to work while ill with vomiting or diarrhea is complex and multifactorial.

Personalizing Pollution

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norah MacKendrick
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Precautionary Principle ◽  
Human Exposure ◽  
Environmental Chemicals ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Broad Application ◽  
Health Movement ◽  
Environmental Health Risks ◽  
Temporary Solution

This chapter reveals how the environmental health movement came together to call for a broad application of a strong precautionary principle in environmental regulation, and worked hard to lobby for global and domestic policy change. As the movement presented evidence of widespread human exposure to environmental chemicals, it faced the question of how to help people understand how to contend with this exposure. Precautionary consumption was the answer. Organizations circulated a message that gendered environmental health risks in a way that understands women’s bodies as the primary pathway through which contamination enters fetal and infant bodies. Specifically, it is women’s domestic labor that provides a temporary solution to prevent contamination. Thus, this chapter tells the story of how the environmental health movement came to take a personalized and gendered approach, and why the movement is a significant part of the story behind the rise of precautionary consumption.

scholarly journals Environmental health and hazardous waste issues related to the U.S.-Mexico border.

1996 ◽  
Vol 104 (6) ◽  
pp. 590-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
D E Carter ◽  
C Peña ◽  
R Varady ◽  
W A Suk
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Hazardous Waste ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
The U.S
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