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01-10-2013 | Editorial

IJPH goes environmental: does it?

Author: Nino Künzli

Published in: International Journal of Public Health | Issue 5/2013

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The answer is no and yes. IJPH is a journal of public health—not of environmental health. However, the environmental causes of health and disease have always been one of the key pillars of the highly interdisciplinary field of public health. This is reflected in the curricula of public health professionals (Bjegovic-Mikanovic et al. 2012) such as in our educational flag ships—the schools of public health. IJPH—owned by the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+)—has a long tradition in addressing, among other pressing public health challenges, its environmental dimensions, including, e.g., a past issue with an international view on housing and health (Braubach 2011; Howden-Chapman et al. 2011; De Wet et al. 2011). …

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Title: IJPH goes environmental: does it?
Author: Nino Künzli
Publication date: 01-10-2013
Publisher: Springer Basel
Published in: International Journal of Public Health / Issue 5/2013
Print ISSN: 1661-8556
Electronic ISSN: 1661-8564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-013-0502-1

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