ABSTRACT
The models used for illustrating and conceptualizing the relationship between the environment and human health have advanced considerably over the past century. The modeling of human health from the perspective of interactions between humans and their surroundings was initially colored by the experience of the biomedical world and the spread of infectious diseases. Yet the world is subject to the influences of many complex factors that have the potential to undermine health and that cannot be controlled by a reductionist medical approach alone, no matter how sophisticated such an approach might be.
