Occupational Medicine & Health Affairs
Open Access

Commentary

Environmental Pollution, Public Health and Environmental Medicine-Oil Spills

¹Envirosafe Training and Consultants, 2366 Golden Mile Highway, PMB 111, Pittsburgh, PA 15239, USA

²Sarasota County Health Department, Sarasota, FL, USA

³Department of Molecular Medicine, Padua University, Padua 35128, Italy

⁴School of Public Health, Imperial College London, S. Mary’s Campus, London, UK

*Corresponding Author:

Lange JH
Envirosafe Training and Consultants
2366 Golden Mile Highway, PMB 111
Pittsburgh, PA 15239, USA
E-mail: JHLange1@hotmail.com

Received date: February 23, 2013; Accepted date: March 29, 2013; Published date: March 31, 2013

Citation: Lange JH, Heymann WC, Cegolon L (2013) Environmental Pollution, Public Health and Environmental Medicine-Oil Spills. Occup Med Health Aff 1:110. doi: 10.4172/2329-6879.1000110

Copyright: © 2013 Lange JH, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

How pollution interacts with public health, environmental medicine and the environment has undergone dramatic change. Recent oil spills in the Yellowstone River, Alaska tundra and Enbridge (Wisconsin) demonstrate how pollution can directly and indirectly impact man’s health. Events of this kind bring back memory of the Gulf of Mexico spill. These disasters are not only impacting environmental factors associated with nature, but human factors as well; including many that are not well recognized. There has been an increased awareness of how pollution is observed regarding its health impact and attitudes toward public health and environmental medicine. Damage from oil spills will not only influence public health but overall disease rates for years to come. As environmental pollution increases so will the importance of environmental medicine in managing its consequences.