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An 11 page paper. It has long been known there is a link between environmental conditions and health. In fact, environmental conditions were first linked to disease in the late 1700s. Although this correlation is known, health care professionals receive very little training about it. The writer reports a survey of pediatricians, for example, 80 percent of whom do not feel comfortable even taking an environmental health history. Other research is also reported. The structure of the American health system is discussed as is the sociopolitical relationship between and among government, politics and health care. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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have been the first person to link environmental conditions to a specific disease. Better well-known was Florence Nightingale, who in the 1850s, recognized a link between health, clean water and
fresh air (Wakefield, 2001). Wakefield commented that Nightingale is "often credited with introducing environmental health into the practice of nursing" (2001, p. A118). Some decades later, Lillian Wald coined the
term public health nursing, a term she used "to describe her efforts to improve environmental conditions through nursing, communication, and even cultural enrichment among immigrant populations" (Wakefield, 2001, p. A118).
All this to demonstrate that the correlation between environmental factors and illness and disease has been recognized for more than 200 years. Interestingly, it was in nursing where environmental
health became part of the routine of nursing (Wakefield, 2001). For instance, it was nurses who were very instrumental in bringing about reforms in sanitation practices and in fighting for
clean water (Wakefield, 2001). It was through the campaigns of nurses that a number of environmental factors were recognized and changed, which eventually reduced illnesses, including the number of infant
moralities (Wakefield, 2001). Linking an environmental condition to sudden physical symptoms is not an easy task. We are exposed to various chemicals throughout our lives and some ill effects
do not happen until years later (NIEHS, 2003). Most physicians have limited training in environmental health care. They do not seem to recognize the correlation between environmental conditions and
illnesses, except for those that have been highly publicized. One common example is the relationship between air pollution and asthma and other respiratory diseases. In some cases, physicians do not
want to be involved. There was a case in Yellow Creek Valley, Kentucky where many people in the town were getting very sick with rashes, diarrhea, vomiting and kidney problems
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