The Importance of Environmental Health

  In today’s world, climate change has a permanent effect on health on a global scale. Therefore, environmental health is a decisive issue when making significant decisions for the future of society, since it determines well-being at an individual level. Aaron Bernstein is Interim Director of the Center of Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health (USA). This school is the public health postgraduate institution of Harvard University which was founded in 1913. It became the School of Public Health in 1922. Bernstein states that the trauma, violence, infectious disease, mental health…