Goldstein B D
Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA.
Am J Public Health. 1995 Apr;85(4):481-3. doi: 10.2105/ajph.85.4.481.
Restoration of the public health base for local, national, and international efforts aimed at protection against adverse health consequences of environmental degradation should be of prime concern for today and the future. Wherever possible, whether it be a mission statement for a cabinet-level EPA or the training and composition of the environmental health work force, we must reinvigorate the public health mission of our environmental protection activities. This cannot be accomplished without recognition by the public health community that environmental health is a central public health concern. As we move toward facing the initially more subtle, but eventually more consequential, global environmental health challenges, it will become even more important for the public health profession to respond.
恢复地方、国家和国际层面旨在防范环境退化对健康造成不利影响的公共卫生基础，应是当下和未来首要关注的问题。无论在何种情况下，无论是作为美国环境保护局内阁级别的使命宣言，还是环境卫生工作队伍的培训与构成，我们都必须重振环境保护活动中的公共卫生使命。若公共卫生界不认识到环境卫生是公共卫生的核心关切，这一目标便无法实现。随着我们迈向应对最初较为微妙但最终更为严重的全球环境卫生挑战，公共卫生专业做出回应将变得愈发重要。
