1. Environmental Health

2. Why we should care for the Environment?
The environment is something that we all are very familiar with. It is everything that surrounds us and affects our lives on earth. If we don’t start caring for our environment, we start to see decline in our health and daily lives.

3. Poor Care for the Environmental Health Can Effect:
Water Quality
Food Quality
Air Quality
Energy Sources
Populations

4. Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
Limit the amount of waste in the community
Reduce
Buy products with less packaging
Turn off water while brushing teeth
Turn off lights when leaving a room
Reuse
Use cloth sacks at stores instead of paper or plastic
Take reusable plastic containers at lunch instead of plastic bags
Recycle
Place plastic items, aluminum cans , and paper products in recycle bins

5. Outdoor Air Quality Reasons for Poor Air Quality:
Fine particles produced by burning fossil fuels
Ground-level ozone (a reactive form of oxygen and a primary component of urban smog)
Tobacco smoke
Reduce Fisk for Poor Air Quality:
Carpool or bike/walk to work
Avoid being outside around heavy traffic areas
Avoid secondhand smoke

6. Water Quality
Concern for water applies to both drinking water and recreational waters
Reasons for poor water quality:
Water supply contact with hazardous substance or material
Rainfall may cause polluted landscapes to dissolve chemicals into surrounding water
Companies that produce large amount of chemical/hazardous waste
Reduce risk for poor water quality:
Conserve your water usage
Use eco-friendly cleaning chemicals
Dispose of non-recyclables properly

7. Energy & Fuel Resources
Using electrical energy and burning fossil fuels are causing an increase in the greenhouse effect and releasing more pollutants in the air.
Renewable electricity sources, such as solar, geothermal, and wind energy, help limit the amount of pollution

8. Ways to Save the Environment
Take shorter showers
Bike, walk, or take public transportation
Limit food waste and start compost piles
Stop drinking out of disposable water bottles
Turn off lights, computers, fans, televisions when not in uses
Use LED light bulbs
Hang clothes out to dry instead of using a dryer

9. Resources: www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/environmental-health
For more information contact:
National Institute of Environmental Health Science
Presentation by: Megan Steinkamp