ABSTRACT
The preceding chapters of this book have provided ample coverage of the kinds of environmental health hazards that impact people around the world and how these interact with various social and behavioural risk factors to produce negative health outcomes. A review of the scientific literature along with case studies drawn primarily from the United States and African countries have demonstrated the complexity of these problems, their manifestation at multiple spatial scales, and the challenges facing governments to come up with sustainable strategies that ensure environmental health equity and social justice among all groups. Disparities have been noted across many different geographic entities, from wealthy industrialized countries, to egalitarian societies such as Sweden, transitional and emerging economies in Eastern Europe, Asia, and the rest of the Global South.
