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Article: Environmental health--the invisible profession, Part 2.(President's Message)
- Article from:
- Journal of Environmental Health
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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In my first president's message, I outlined some of the symptoms of the "invisible-profession" malady that many of us believe we are suffering from. During my time on the NEHA Board of Directors, I have been collecting ideas and comments from individuals and groups about ways to make environmental health more visible. I will outline some of these suggestions later in this column.
Historically, our professional forebears did huge amounts of preventive environmental health work to reduce disease and premature death, largely in the area of infectious-disease prevention, which allows us today to have a life expectancy that is much increased from that of 100 years ...