It's time environmental health and public health were governed as one | Caroline Lucas | Environment | guardian.co.uk

It's time environmental health and public health were governed as one | Caroline Lucas | Environment | guardian.co.uk: "On average people today are living twice as long as they were in Dickens's time.

But the direct link between the health of the environment and the health of the public is often overlooked. While the latter has tended to remain high on the public and political agenda, concerns about the environment can wax and wane – often in response to the state of the economy.

And despite the huge progress brought about by public health movement, our society has faced worsening challenges – chronic diseases, obesity, diabetes, drug and alcohol abuse and gambling addiction, for example – while major inequalities persist.

The case set out in an important new book by Tim Lang and Geoff Rayner, Ecological Public Health: Reshaping the Conditions For Good Health, is that the health of the planet and the health of people should and must be brought together."

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