ABSTRACT
More than 150 years later, the links between the environment and health have been well researched and our understanding has changed out of all recognition. That is not to say, however, that the public understanding of these links is particularly high. One reason for that poor state of affairs is that whereas science education is widely regarded as a core subject in the curriculum, health and environmental education are more likely to be seen as cross-cutting themes if they appear anywhere. Most current science curricula have relatively little health or environmental education in them and that is partly due to content over-load which has been a feature of science education for decades.
