How does the environment and the surroundings influence the spread of diseases

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  • The Built Environment and its Relationship to the Public's Health: The Legal Framework.

    Perdue, Wendy Collins, Lesley A. Stone, and Lawrence O. Gostin. The Built Environment and its Relationship to the Public's Health: The Legal Framework. 93 Vol. American Public Health Association, 2003. Print. How the environment affects the public health. How even today in the age of chronic diseases, the built envirounment could expose people to diseases.

  • Active Community Environments and Health

    Doyle, Scott, et al. "Active Community Environments and Health." Journal of the American Planning Association 72.1 (2006): 19-31. Print. People would have a good health if they live in an active community environment that provides and promotes exercises activity.

  • Linking TB and the Environment

    Schmidt, Charles W. "Linking TB and the Environment." Environmental health perspectives 116.11 (2008): A478-85. Print. The article discusses the link between the disease "TB" and the environment. Also, covers the history of TB.

  • Environmental Health: Assessing Risks to Society

    Chopra, Parvesh K., and Gopal K. Kanji. "Environmental Health: Assessing Risks to Society." Total Quality Management & Business Excellence 22.4 (2011): 461-89. Print. This source talks about natural and built environment systems that sustains lives by providing healthy living surroundings is under a tremendous pressure from various stressors such as rapid population growth, urbanisation,

  • Roundtable on Urban Living Environment Research

    Vlahov, David1, david.vlahov@nursing.ucsf.edu, et al. Roundtable on Urban Living Environment Research (RULER). 88 Vol. , 2011. Print. This article duiscusses how living in urban cities and environments could affect our health.

  • How Adolescents Perceive their Communities: A Qualitative Study that Explores the Relationship between Health and the Physical Environment

    Mmari, Kristin, et al. "How Adolescents Perceive their Communities: A Qualitative Study that Explores the Relationship between Health and the Physical Environment." BMC Public Health 14.1 (2014): 1-24. Print. This article shows a study that have been conducted to show how the built environment inflence our health. Also, the how gender count as a factor of influence on health in terms of the environment.