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en-vi-ron-men-tal (adj)
Of, relating to, or associated with the environment.
Relating to or being concerned with the ecological impact of altering the environement.
Medicine. Of or relating to potentially harmful factors orginating in the environment: environmental illness. environmental health.

NEHA's definition - Environental health and protection refers to protection against environmental factors that may adversely impct human health or the ecological balances essential t long-term human health and environmental quality, whether in the natural or man-made environment.

Environmental Health is defined by the World health Organization as:

  Those aspects of human health and disease that are determined by factors in the environment. 
It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing and controling factors inthe environment that can potentially affect health.
Environmental health as used by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, includes both direct pathological effects of chemicals, radiation and some biological agents, and the effects (often ndirect) on health and wellbeing of the broad physical,psychological, social and aesthetic environmental which includes housing, urban development, land use and transport.

Nutrition, pollution, waste control and public health are related concerns.

When well-being of a whole population is measured, these become economic and political concerns.
Increaseingly wellness concerns are affecting policy and prompting some advocates to call for moneary reform.

Environmental Health Services
Environmental health services are defined by the world Health Organization as:
those services which implement environmental health policies through monitoring and control activities.
They also carry out that role by promoting the improvement parameters and by encouraging the use of environmentally friendly and healthy technologies and behaviors.  They also have a leading role in developing and suggesting new policy areas.

The Environmental Health profession hd its modern-day roots in the sanitary and public health movement of the United Kingdom.  This was epitomised by Sir Edwin Chadwick who was instrumental in the repeal of the poor laws and was the founding president of the chartered Institute of Envirohmental Health.
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