An interesting article:

Rachel's Democracy & Health News #841
"Environment, health, jobs and justice--Who gets to decide?"
Thursday, February 9, 2006
www.rachel.org 
Sick of Poverty: A Broader Vision of Environmental Health
  Many, many studies suggest that social exclusion, relative
  poverty, and pyramids of status create stresses that have a strongly
  harmful influence on health. Thus the "social determinants of
  health" is a bridging idea, anchored in science, that could allow
  environmentalists to get beyond their single issues and contribute to
  a larger social movement for change. The social determinants of
  health can connect people concerned about justice, fairness, poverty,
  inequality, urban decay, sprawl, shabby housing, rising personal debt,
  racism, sexism, mysogyny, homophobia, intolerance, white privilege,
  street crime, corporate power, public health, hunger, access to a
  decent diet, obesity, lousy schools, depression, suicide, domestic
  violence, waste (of all kinds), economic growth, and low-wage jobs
  that are boring and stressful -- plus many other aspects of our
  culture that make people insecure, unhappy, stressed out and sick.
  This is what "environmental health" really means. It's not just about
  chemicals anymore.

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Yours in health,

Veli


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