Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene

by Andy Haines and Howard Frumkin

Book Overview

We live in unprecedented times - the Anthropocene - defined by far-reaching human impacts on the natural systems that underpin civilisation. Planetary Health explores the many environmental changes that threaten to undermine progress in human health, and explains how these changes affect health outcomes, from pandemics to infectious diseases to mental health, from chronic diseases to injuries. It shows how people can adapt to those changes that are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108729266
• ISBN13: 9781108729260
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.1" x 9.5"