Environmental Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth

by Emily Mendenhall (Editor), Adam Koon (Editor), Peter J. Brown (Foreword by), Hannah Adams Burque (Illustrator)

Overview

Andrew woke up with a guinea worm coming out of his foot as a result of drinking unsafe water a year previously.

Anjali awoke with a cough because smoke from kilns filled her dilapidated home.

Tyler stayed home from school because he had a stomachache from eating bad beef.

What are the links between the environments in which these young people live and their health problems?

The stories, most set in poor communities, draw attention to the effects of air, water, food, climate, urbanization, and other human impacts on health. A comprehensive teaching guide provides a context from which readers can explore problems and solutions in environmental health.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826351661
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	08/15/2012
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Emily Mendenhall, a medical anthropologist, is the editor of Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth (UNM Press, 2009) and founding director of Global Health Narratives for Change (www.ghn4c.org).

Adam Koon works in global health program management and research. Lately he has been working on guinea worm and polio eradication campaigns in South Sudan and India.