noun

• 1The branch of public health concerned with monitoring or mitigating those factors in the environment that affect human health and disease.

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  • ‘air pollution is a huge environmental health issue’

  1. 1.1The condition of the environment in a particular region, especially as regards ecological diversity or pollution.
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     • ‘the analysis focused on 18 seabird species that are indicators of the environmental health of Puget Sound’