Exploring Environmental Health Science
The EHS System: EHS as an Integrating Context
Although we consider EHS to be a science, it incorporates many academic disciplines because it deals with political and legal policies, social and emotional reactions to the subjects, as well as the science and mathematics of assessing hazards to human health. Below is a list of different disciplines and their roles in environmental health:
- Science
- Biology, Chemistry, Physical & Earth Science
- Math
- Patterns & Functions, Probability, Reasoning, Statistics, Measurement
- Language Arts
- Communication Skills & Strategies, Reading for Understanding & Perspective, Evaluating data, Developing research skills
- Health
- Influences on health, Reducing risks, Disease prevention, Health advocacy
- Social Sciences
- Economics, Policy & Regulations, Government, Roles of the citizen, Environmental justice
Listed below are a few of the many careers in Environmental Health:
- Environmental Health Scientists assess exposures
- Health Professionals target and treat the effects of environmental exposures
- Public Health Professionals educate and communicate with community members
- Governmental Agencies manage and direct policy and economics
- Lawyers are involved in legal societal processes
- Engineers implement environmental controls
