Environmental Public Health Impacts of Disasters: Hurricane Katrina: Workshop Summary

by Christine Coussens and Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences Research and Medicine

Public health officials have the traditional responsibilities of protecting the food supply, safeguarding against communicable disease, and ensuring safe and healthful conditions for the population. Beyond this, public health today is challenged in a way that it has never been before. Starting with the 9/11 terrorist attacks, public health officers have had to spend significant amounts of time addressing the threat of terrorism to human health...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309105005
• ISBN13: 9780309105002
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.8"